MICHAEL’S POV I thought being that close to me would make Anaiah realize that she needed me and that what she had with Max was real and better than what she thought she had with Max. I thought that kissing her would awaken those feelings that she was trying so hard to kill. I couldn’t believe that she kept choosing him over me despite the fact that I had been working so hard to win her over. I had been risking my life just to go over there and see her and it was as if all that didn’t mean anything to her. I wondered what it was that Max was giving her or doing to her that made her so determined to stay with him, what was it that he had that I didn’t have? No matter what she said to me I was not going to give up on her because giving up on her was like losing to Max. I could handle all t