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He opened his eyes, wanting to see her face the first tiazes locked He lost hi back She was co he’d ever seen in his life She sently "There you are," she said

He sat up, shifting her hips until she was cos around hiainst his neck He held her for a ? He realized that he’d told her he wanted her to be his steady girlfriend, but he hadn’t thought that meant he’d become emotionally invested That would o when the tihtening around her

I’ood way

"You are all kinds of freaked out about this, aren’t you?" she said into his ear She pulled away and cupped his face as she stared into his eyes "Tell me"

He shook his head There was no way he could describe what he was feeling Besides, he didn’t want her to know He hadn’t even come to terms with it yet How could he be expected to share it with her?

She kissed hiently and then stared into his eyes with tenderness "Given time, maybe as little as ten seconds, I think I could love you, Trey Mills How does thatin love with e of hurt crossed her eyes and he was sorry he hadn’t chosen his wordsthat I could feel the saht as she s special between us You feel it too?"

"It scares the shit out of hed "Oh God, me too" She kissed hi to crush my heart, but I don’t want to slon, do you?"

He contemplated her question Yeah, he did want to slon, but he was pretty sure it was too late for that He was falling hard and fast for Reagan Elliot His entire world had been shaken to its core in one short day, and there was no turning back now "I think it’s ti back Do you think you can handle that?"

She laughed "Probably not, but I’ll scrape what’s left ofback either And if it doesn’t work out between us, it doesn’t work out"

He stroked her hair away from her beautiful face and s that she had the same reservations, but also wanted to throw them aside, made it so much easier for him to bare his soul Well, most of it "I hope it does work out"

She s to let hed "No promises"

"But I want proht"

Promises

"You make me feel whole," she said "Like that piece that’s always beenhas been filled I didn’t even knoas there until you touched on it"