Chapter 17 Chapter Seventeen

• At first, she thought he was back for revenge. To hurt her in any way possible, then leave. Then it dawned on her what exactly it was he meant. She wanted to laugh, and wave it off as a sick joke. Only, she knew Chris wasn't joking.
• "What...what do you mean, Chris? I hope this is one of your jokes..." Another nervous sip. Her heart rate was speeding up, and she wished she could jump up, and scurry away without having to hear what he had to say. Yet that part of her that had yearned for him silently, painfully, over the years, ached to know what Christian Sydney was back in town for.
• "What I mean, is, I am here to take you back. I was...weak, and wrong, and foolish to have let Colin Anderson steal you right under my nose. I should have fought for you. For us. For our love. I've realized I can't live without you, and I am willing and ready to do anything, anything at all, to have you back. And I'm not going to let anyone or anything stop me. Not even you, El." Chris said, with a note of finality and determination.