“She needs us to show her we still love her.”
Max’s eyes widened. “She knows we love her, don’t you, Savannah?”
Did she? Yes, of course, she did. At least she thought she did.
“Fuck,” Max muttered.
Max and Logan shared a look she couldn’t decipher. Then Max nodded. “Colin was right. We need to be on the same page about this.”
Logan nodded.
“Colin?” she asked.
“Colin and Trace were over earlier. They pointed out that we weren’t doing you any favors by allowing you to shut us out. It’s not something we would have allowed in the past, is it?” He raised an eyebrow, looking stern.
She glanced away. “I kind of had the same thought. I’ve been trying to keep myself from feeling too much pain. If I didn’t feel anything then I couldn’t be scared or afraid.” She looked at them both. “But then I realized I was pushing you both away and that’s actually the last thing I want. Because I don’t know what I would do if I lost the two of you.”
“You’re not losing us,” Logan growled.
Max shook his head. “We’ve been letting you hold back from us because we thought you needed time. Because we were worried about scaring you. But I think you’ve had too much time. The fact that you think you might lose us tells me that.”
Max moved forward, crouching in front of her. He reached out and took one of her hands in his. “You’re freezing.”
“I’m okay.”
“She doesn’t think we want to touch her,” Logan explained.
“Logan,” she protested.
“You’ve taken the first step, don’t wimp out on us now, darlin’,” he said quietly.
A shiver of desire whispered across her skin. Her body was waking up. Maybe she wasn’t completely broken after all.
“Savannah, you know we love you, don’t you?” Max asked.
“You haven’t said it since,” she blurted out.
He rocked backward, almost falling. “What?”
“Since I was in the hospital. You both said you loved me when I woke up but you haven’t said it since.”
“We have,” Logan said quietly.
“No, you haven’t,” she cried.
She would know if they’d said it. She’d been waiting to hear those words from them.
“We say it every time you fall asleep,” Max told her. “Every time you’re caught in one of those nightmares, we tell you we love you. We tell you to come back to us.”
She shuddered out a deep breath. “I don’t remember. I didn’t hear you.”
“You thought we’d stopped loving you?” Max looked aghast. “Savannah, you are everything to us. You’re the reason we damn well get up in the morning. You’re what keeps us going. You’re our reason for breathing.”
“Yeah. What he said,” Logan said gruffly.
She gave a small laugh, although even to her ears it came out more like a sob.
“You’ve been worrying we didn’t love you?” Max asked.