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"Oh, good save," Grayso slow on the uptake"

Penny shtly on the chest "Shh And it wouldn’t hurt you to be taking notes here, Mr Not Rohed and reached for another piece of pizza

Hud lowered his head and brushed his mouth over Bailey’s "I knew my mistake instantly," heI’d be scared off"

"I was," Hud admitted

She nodded "You about done with that?"

He pressed his forehead to hers "Yeah"

"Good"

Hud couldn’t believe his luck, that she was really here looking at hi to her He’d never get tired of that, and how he’d thought he could live without her, he had no idea "I love you, Bailey So very much I have since I first laid eyes on you"

"On Devil’s Face," she said softly "When you inferred that I was a very stupid wo"

"If anyone was stupid that day, it was me," he said "But that wasn’t the first ti You were in the parking lot, sitting on your back buht itEd Sheeran Your eyes were shining with…" He closed his own eyes "Happiness," he said "You were incredibly happy, and what I didn’t know then but kno is that you were just feeling lucky as hell to even be breathing"

She inhaled, slow and deep and a little shaky "Yes," she whispered

"I took one look at you and you--"

"--made you want to run in the opposite direction?"

"Smile," he said "You made me smile I wanted to knoho you were I wanted to breathe your air and take in so because I wasn’t," he said "Feeling I’d closed myself off and yet one look at you and I knehat I wasnightmare," he said "You take off with your list and vanish, and I never see you again"

"I’d never do that," she said

"I know, and I realize now that’s not even what htain"

"C-H-E-E-S-Y," Gray stage-whispered to Penny

"I took one look at you," Hud said to Bailey, "and control went flying out theYou tore down the brick wall around my heart one se-whispered again "Really? Women buy this shit?"

"Yes," Penny and Lily said in sync "Shh!"

Kenna shrugged and kept eating pizza "Depends on what comes next"

Hud let out a shaky breath and didn’t take his eyes off of Bailey "I’s, but I think e it to each other to see where this goes And I want you to know, I’ain?" she asked with a casualness that didn’t fool his squeezed out all the air so he couldn’t breathe "I’ll still be all-in," he et sick?"

"I’ to," he said

"But what if?" she asked stubbornly "You going to try to push ain" He pulled a sasped