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I lean forward and take Gray’s hands I pull on her until she sits up I pull harder until she goes to her knees, and then I tug so up to straddle ainst ht squeeze "I’ve been thinking about us, and while the e have to keep this secret is less than opti to be forever I think this is just so to happen at the end of the season, or even the year after that Hell, I could get injured badly next week and have to retire, and then we’d be free to see each other publicly"

"Don’t even say that," Gray ot tiht now is nothing more than a temporary hurdle"

She tilts her head to the side and drops her gaze to ers with ht…it’s just, this is all new toand wondrous and I want to experience everything The unfairness of it…that I can’t have a norets to me It makes me crazy"

"If we could be nors you’d want to do?" I ask her curiously

Her eyes raise up to o out on a simple date Dinner, o out in public, and have you hold my hand and kiss me, and the only concern I’d have of what others think is if other women were insanely jealous of me, and I would love that so much"

I chuckle andso sie have already experienced in spades Gray Brannon may have all kinds of experience in the sack, but when it coh school girl going to her first prom

"You knohat I’d want to do if we didn’t have to hide e have?" I ask her

She nods enthusiastically with an impatient twinkle in her eyes

"I’d have you over for dinner to spend tiet to know Ruby and Violet and I want theet to know you"

Her eyes iood with kids"

"Are you kidding h squeeze to her hands so she understands reat with theo to see Ruby after her surgery You’re a natural at talking to them"

She doesn’t want to believe me but I see a flicker of hope within "Really?"

"Yeah," I assure her "They’re just people Little people, but all you have to do is just talk to them It’s not rocket science"