All Chapters of I Just Want You: Chapter 21 - Chapter 26

That made Eva almost smile. "You don't approve of it either." "I don't approve one way or the other. I'm worried about you. I think you wanted to sleep with Liam for a lot of reasons, and none of them have anything to do with punishing him.""You think I'm still in love with him.""It would explain a lot."Eva rolled onto her back and stared up at the ceiling. In love with Liam. Was it possible? The way her personal life was going, it made sense. He'd spent the last ten years doing the least he could justify when it came to her, and she might have spent the same amount of time desperate to give her heart to him. ************Liam's POV ;I was staring at my computer screen when Derrick walked into my office. "What's up?" I asked. "You hurt Eva," Derrick said. "That's not right. You can't be so insensitive that you wouldn't know how much the information about Justice would bother her. Not to mention the fact that someone she respected and thought of as a friend had been spying on h

Eva's POV cont'd ;I blinked several times, then swallowed. "I can't stay with you, Liam." He hadn't thought about me leaving until I said I had to, and now he didn't want me to go. I scrambled out of the bed and pulled on my clothes. "This is crazy. All of it. I don't know what I was thinking. I had this great plan. Sloane warned me, but did I listen? And I'm supposed to be the smart one." "What are you talking about?"I slid on my T-shirt, then looked at him. "You have to stop it, Liam. You're not allowed to spy on me anymore. I know you'd call it looking after me. Whatever it is, you have to stop. I'm a grown woman and I can take care of myself. If there are mistakes to be made, then I'll make them. Stop protecting me.""I don't want to.""This isn't about you."He didn't understand. They'd just made love. It had been great. So why was she leaving? And when the hell had it gotten so cold in this room? "Just like that?" he asked, getting angry because it was easy and something h

"I love you, Eva. I have for a long time. I always thought..." He shrugged. "I thought there was something between us back then. But you were young and I was young and then Emmett got sick. I couldn't deal, so I ran. You know all this. I ran, but I couldn't let go. I took the coward's way out. I spied on you. You were right to call it that. I kept track from a distance, where it was safe. Where I was safe."She had to sit down. Her legs felt weak and the room was spinning. Instead she reached for him, and he caught her and held her as if he might never let go. "I missed you," he murmured, speaking into her hair. "I missed you so much. Not just the past three weeks, although they were hell, but for the past nine years. I'm sorry I didn't know before. I love you, Eva. I want to be with you. I want to make this right." He grabbed her by her upper arms and held her in front of him. "Can you forgive me? Can you tell me what to do to make it right? Can you ever care about me?" She began