PENNY POV
I did not know what to do with all of that.
With him.
With the rain.
With the way Liam was looking at me like I had just handed him the world and he still expected someone to rip it out of his hands before he could close his fingers around it.
You are a gift.
A dream.
The only one I never let myself name.
Those words were not fair.
They were not fair because they went under my skin too easily, slid between every ugly thought I had ever had about myself, and found the softest place to bury themselves. I wanted to believe him. Goddess, I wanted to believe him so badly it hurt. I wanted to believe that he did not see me as a mistake. That he did not resent me. That he had not been dragged into the disaster of my life and forced to pay for being close to me.
I wanted to bel
