Emily POV
I say nothing and just wait for him to accept it. He tightens his grip tighter around my face and glues then our foreheads together heightening the pain to our chests, allowing his usual scent to intoxicate my sensors and my eyes to get lost in the intense brown of his gaze that looked less fervent than usual, not to mention of course the subcutaneous bleeding broken vessels from around the skin in that area.
"Just give me the chance, please" He begs and runs one of his hands up to behind my neck, puts his lower lip between my lips, and leaves it there without making further movement, just brushing our mouths in a very perfunctory way: "I love you."
He complements and looks into my eyes from the almost zero distance we now had. I clench my hands against his wrists and just deny unable to reciprocate, squeezing my eyes to the point where I was beginning to see stars. All for the sake of not seeing him suffer, even though with my words I was contradicting myself.
