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This was soht, that she did indeed bla hollow at the notion that she’d been feeling this way for ten years, Aidan shook his head "Why would you possibly bla to be like me!" She covered her face "I’d clio until she’d done the sa her ed about it--"
"Lily, that was your relationship with her, competitive to the core What happened to her up there was an accident A horrible, tragic accident But it wasn’t your doing"
Her eyes flew open, filled with surprise, and that just about killed his? She was still staring at him when he took her hands in his and lifted them up to his mouth, where he brushed his lips over her knuckles "Not your fault," he repeated softly as it all clicked into place and rief
She’d stayed away because of guilt
Not because of his for him and also devastated him--for her "Ashley was book smart but not street sic skills, your ability to know your own li and self-centered and she did whatever she wanted--not thinking about the cost to anyone, especially you You can’t carry around the responsibility for what happened to her, you just can’t And more than that, she wouldn’t want you to"
She pulled free and ht a fire," she said, her back to hi her aside, he crouched before the woodstove and began to build her a fire
"I can do that," she said
"I know" He was expertly and efficiently crisscrossing the kindling, then adding the wood on top, doing ould have taken her a good half hour in less than a ood at that," she said, but it wasn’t his fire skills she was ad It was the easy way he was balanced on the balls of his feet, his pants stretched taut across as surely the best ass in all of Cedar Ridge
He rose and aze, and she could feel herself blush because what if he could read her s," he murmured
Dammit
"Now tell me how you can be one of the smartest people I know and yet really believe you were responsible for your sister’s death," he said, switching gears with far ?"
She stared at hi beat "The day before, I’d come home with a scholarship to the University of Colorado at Boulder and an invite to be on their ski teaious ski team," he corrected
"Yeah, well, it was the last straw for Ashley after the attention I’d received in the recruiting process And Boulder was the only place she’d ever wanted to go ski, so it was her dreaot it a whole year before she could even apply"