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With the wall of flames at my back, and feeling Chase's eyes on me from the other side of them, I gape at Aiden--who stares right back at me, defiant. Did he really just tell me he loves me?
It's like the entire world just shifted. "I..." I don't know what to say.
I've had this feeling before. Once. It was a wonderful afternoon a month before we left Los Angeles. I hadn't had any cravings that day, even though I was with some of my old friends. We were at the beach, just laughing and relaxing. At one point I walked to the water and just stood in the ripples of the waves with my back to the ocean, feeling content.
