"I've been through this before and I swore I wouldn't go down this road ever again."
"You haven't gone down this road with me though." My mom was right earlier, I really was a 'daddy's girl.' Through and through. And now, I was going to take another page from my father's handbook by parroting the lines of the person I was in love with. "I hope you don't mind, Gray, but I'm going to use your own words against you..." I brought her hand to my lips and kissed her skin. "I wish you'd believe in us half as much as I do because if you did—I swear, we'd be unstoppable." The reference to her past statement made her smile. "Listen to me, okay? I don't know who hurt you, but I also don't care. Regardless of who she is, I'm willing to pay for her mistakes... You just have to let me," I declared, det
