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understanding, and it hurt her chest to know it was about her. Taking a few deep breaths through her nose, she tried not to shake from the force of holding in her emotions. She hadn’t cried since her father passed away, but this experience was very similar and she wasn’t comfortable at all.
“I jus-st don’t know what to feel. This is so hard.” Stuttering slightly, Cassandra pursed her lips together as she stared at her knees and Lukas clasped his hands under his legs. Really it was just to keep from touching her, since he knew she probably wouldn’t appreciate even a comforting pat right now. He absolutely despised everything that was going on right now, but he knew he had to at least try. Giving her options didn’t seem like a good idea, though. She needed to be told straight forward instead of getting more confused.
“We don’t have to talk about it, Cassy. In the elevator I just gave you too much slack, but it won’t happen again. As long as you’re around I’ll be fine. I’m not going to lie to you again- a lot of the reason we hit it off so well at the bar was because we’re attracted to each other on a primal level. It’s like how you like the way I smell and why I take you straight to bed. That’s our instincts. But after our date, when I decided to tell you, it was because I really like you as a man. I’ve never met any other person even remotely like you- eternally optimistic and so bubbly even though you’ve had a terrible life. That’s why, if you don’t think you can get over what I am, I won’t try to keep you. If I make you miserable because this thing is in the way…”
“That’s not it.” Whispering, Cassandra interrupted Lukas but didn’t look away from her knees. She wasn’t sure why, but she just couldn’t look at him the way she was. Uncertain and afraid isn’t the way she wanted him to see her.
“I thought a lot about it, and I’m sure it’ll be fine with some time… I just… I’ve never thought about dating or anything. Everyone, even now- they make fun of me and look down on me because I’m a high school dropout turned overnight millionaire. They think my life is so easy because I still live at home and I never worked a day in my life. But it’s not easy. It’s not easy being happy all the time. It’s not easy seeing people I went to school with on the street and getting talked about to their friends or coworkers. How can you want someone like me when I can’t even acknowledge my own shortcomings?” Up until that very moment Cassandra had never voiced anything bad that happened to her. She ignored it, moving on with her day in complete ignorance. Even when she heard what was being said about her but not to her she passed it off, convincing herself that it was about someone else. When being happy became a chore she would find something to distract herself.
Really her entire life was a lie that she didn’t want to wake up from and it was debilitating.
“Hey.” Finally reaching for her, Lukas gently took Cassandra’s face in his palms and the heat from her flushed cheeks scorched his skin. It’d been too long since he last touched her, but he brushed aside his pounding heart to thumb her damp, mile long eyelashes. He’d never seen her so vulnerable before, even when he’d brought up her father on their date.
“To me, you don’t have shortcomings, baby. Everything about you is perfect and no one can convince me otherwise. It doesn’t matter to me if you lie to yourself because I know the truth, even if you don’t say it. I know I’m lucky to even know you. I know that sometimes you need to punch and scream at something, but you won’t let yourself. Most of all I know how much you want to feel worthy, and you are. You’re worthy even if only to me. I’m one of the most powerful species of shifter in the world, Cassy, and you mean almost everything to me.” Lukas was so serious, maintaining eye contact through his entire speech, that the
“I jus-st don’t know what to feel. This is so hard.” Stuttering slightly, Cassandra pursed her lips together as she stared at her knees and Lukas clasped his hands under his legs. Really it was just to keep from touching her, since he knew she probably wouldn’t appreciate even a comforting pat right now. He absolutely despised everything that was going on right now, but he knew he had to at least try. Giving her options didn’t seem like a good idea, though. She needed to be told straight forward instead of getting more confused.
“We don’t have to talk about it, Cassy. In the elevator I just gave you too much slack, but it won’t happen again. As long as you’re around I’ll be fine. I’m not going to lie to you again- a lot of the reason we hit it off so well at the bar was because we’re attracted to each other on a primal level. It’s like how you like the way I smell and why I take you straight to bed. That’s our instincts. But after our date, when I decided to tell you, it was because I really like you as a man. I’ve never met any other person even remotely like you- eternally optimistic and so bubbly even though you’ve had a terrible life. That’s why, if you don’t think you can get over what I am, I won’t try to keep you. If I make you miserable because this thing is in the way…”
“That’s not it.” Whispering, Cassandra interrupted Lukas but didn’t look away from her knees. She wasn’t sure why, but she just couldn’t look at him the way she was. Uncertain and afraid isn’t the way she wanted him to see her.
“I thought a lot about it, and I’m sure it’ll be fine with some time… I just… I’ve never thought about dating or anything. Everyone, even now- they make fun of me and look down on me because I’m a high school dropout turned overnight millionaire. They think my life is so easy because I still live at home and I never worked a day in my life. But it’s not easy. It’s not easy being happy all the time. It’s not easy seeing people I went to school with on the street and getting talked about to their friends or coworkers. How can you want someone like me when I can’t even acknowledge my own shortcomings?” Up until that very moment Cassandra had never voiced anything bad that happened to her. She ignored it, moving on with her day in complete ignorance. Even when she heard what was being said about her but not to her she passed it off, convincing herself that it was about someone else. When being happy became a chore she would find something to distract herself.
Really her entire life was a lie that she didn’t want to wake up from and it was debilitating.
“Hey.” Finally reaching for her, Lukas gently took Cassandra’s face in his palms and the heat from her flushed cheeks scorched his skin. It’d been too long since he last touched her, but he brushed aside his pounding heart to thumb her damp, mile long eyelashes. He’d never seen her so vulnerable before, even when he’d brought up her father on their date.
“To me, you don’t have shortcomings, baby. Everything about you is perfect and no one can convince me otherwise. It doesn’t matter to me if you lie to yourself because I know the truth, even if you don’t say it. I know I’m lucky to even know you. I know that sometimes you need to punch and scream at something, but you won’t let yourself. Most of all I know how much you want to feel worthy, and you are. You’re worthy even if only to me. I’m one of the most powerful species of shifter in the world, Cassy, and you mean almost everything to me.” Lukas was so serious, maintaining eye contact through his entire speech, that the
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