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I wanted to see him now.

I couldn’t bear to think he was hurting right this second, and I wasn’t doing anything about it.

Thankfully, my brother was a better driver than me, and he didn’t even give it another thought before he stole Dad’s keys and drove me tohim.

We made it to his building in record time, thanks to the empty roads. The entire way, I was a bundle of anxious nerves just thinking about him.

“Thanks, Raphy,” I said, turning to my brother as he parked at the curb.

Raphy gave me one of his signature cocky grins as he pulled me into a hug. And I went crashing into my brother, marveling at his strength at such a young age.

Today wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for him sticking by my side.

“Go on now, go live the life that you’re always meant to live, Si. I’ll see you on the other side.”

“I love you so, so much, Raphy,” I muttered, smiling as I kissed his cheek before diving out.

I prayed the codes were still the same as I crossed the reception and ran to the elevator, and thankfully, it was.

I rushed to his doorstep, pausing right outside his door. I knew the code, but I didn’t want to barge in unannounced. Especially since I wasn’t with him anymore.

I pressed the doorbell, but there was no answer.

He was probably sleeping, and I didn’t even bring my phone since I left in a hurry.

I pressed it again and again till I heard the thunder of footsteps approaching me, the same sound that matched the beat of my heart.

The door dashed open, and my breath hitched at the sight of him.

Shirtless in just his black sweatpants.

Those green eyes blinked at me, tired lines surrounding them.

And everything in me ached.

“Sierra?”

“I choose you,” I blurted, wringing my fingers. “I don’t choose my parents, I don’t choose my game, nor do I choose myself. I chooseyou, Matty Evans, because you’re the only man who wanted me for me without wanting anything back. And I’m sorry, I’m so fucking sorry for breaking up with you like that. I didn’t know what I was thinking. I thought I didn’t fit in your life, but the life I was thinking, was the life you showed the world, not the life you lived with me. Yourreallife. I think it’s the only place I would fit perfectly.” My lips wobbled.

“I like the way I look in your eyes, Matty Evans, and I’ve never felt more beautiful. I love you with all that I am. I love you, the real you. The man standing in front of me, not the man staring at me from the posters on the wall. But then I love every version of you.”

He blinked.

“I know it’s probably too late now. I don’t know if I still have a chance with you. But I don’t want anything else. I’m sorry for everything that I did. There is nothing I want. Please, just I hope…”

“Sierra,” Matty’s voice boomed to my soul. “Shut the fuck up,” he muttered, and in the next second, he swooped me into his arms and pressed his lips to mine.

And there was no place I’d rather be in the whole entire world.

CHAPTER 34

Earlier that day

MATT

Everything felt insignificant, so mundane that nothing even mattered anymore.

It was like that since the day she left me.