"I told you not to move until I came back," Damien bellows above my head. "Don't you ever run from me again. You could have gotten hurt, Sadie."
"Put me down," I scream, fighting his hold, panicking. "Please don't make me come back. Please just let me go!"
"What part of forever don't you understand?" He stomps us toward an overhang of trees, putting us out of sight from the houses on the other side of the street. "I am never letting you go. Don't even say those words out loud."
"You have to. She's back and now you have t-to leave me. Or move on." A hiccup wracks me. "It happens every single time and you're not going to be any different."
"Oh, I'm not?" He sets me down on the dampening earth and spins me around, taking my shoulders in his big hands. "I know you've been hurt, baby, and t
