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"I’ on that," she said softly "I as I’ ood that I’s things anymore, Aidan"
"I don’t buy it," he said "You’re wars without feeling soive so much to everyone--"
She shook her head
"You do Jonathan," he said "Your clients …" He gently wrapped his hand up in her ponytail and tugged her head back to see her eyes "Me"
She snorted "I don’t give to you You give tome like one of your five-alarm calls"
"I care about you"
"You care about all your calls"
"I care for you differently," he said, narrowing his eyes, wanting to force her to believe this "With a fire call, I don’t get a terrifying fear grippingup to Dead Man’s Cliff, or that you’ve fallen down a flight of stairs You’re not a job to me, Lily Not even close You’re more And I think I’m more to you too You want to knohat I think?"
"I’d say no, but I’ ri, it’s that you feel too much I scare you"
"Your life scares me," she said, and see
His heart squeezed, hard He’d never really given any thought at all to what the people who cared about hi The anxiety and worry And for soically, it would be worse, so et that," he said quietly "I do And I can’t promise I’ll rein it in--it’s my job But I can promise you that safety is of the up with me Always But I don’t think that’s what this is I think the real issue is that you’re afraid of loving so theo But he could also tell that she wasn’t ready to go there, wasn’t ready to ads yet at all
But at least he could show her his Especially since he was uy anyway "Coht here"
"Closer"
She walked into his arms He pulled her in and kissed her He kissed her until he knew he’d taken it as far as he could without tearing off that pretty sundress right then and there, and only then did he lift his head
"Oh," she breathed, staggering back a step, clearly trying to play it cool--which ht have worked if her eyes weren’t dilated and the pulse at the base of her throat wasn’t going apeshit crazy
He gave a slow smile and pulled her back in, not hard for hirip on his shirt like he was her lifeline and she was going down for the count