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He was the last person in the world she could ask to pick up her wedding dress

She could call her mom

Or one of her aunts

Maybe even Miller if she was in town

“Consider it done,” he told her, ju her one of his sweet sain

She felt it then, replacing the guilt as he walked out the front door, a sensation not wholly unfamiliar around Kai

An odd, tight feeling across her chest, so herself oddly afraid of what she would find if she tried

So she refused to

And she went to take notes for her boss, finding her dress hanging in its pretty pearl-colored gar

It was really happening, she realized as she unzipped the bag slightly to see the dress

She was really getting married

And that dropping feeling in her belly?

Yeah, she was just choosing not to analyze that either

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Kai

She was getting married

She was getting uy

And I couldn’t getat a face made almost unfamiliar with the new short crop of ht before, not sure where the i it would signal a new start

Even if a new start was the last thing in the world I wanted

Everything was changing

Like a kid whose parents were splitting up, I was hung up on the little things, the way life would be different than it had before

She’d belong to another man

One ould do the errands she needed done, but couldn’t find the extra hours in the day to do so herself