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She felt his mouth in her hair, and then his kiss on the top of her head before he asked, "What’s wrong?"

"I can’t do this" Knowing she needed to be strong, that she should have faced hi, she forced herself to turn around and look hi--" She sucked in a shaky breath to get it out "--it’s a mistake"

How she wished she’d never laid eyes on the man who had turned her world completely upside down But that was a lie, too, because she couldn’t i had these past teeks with hiet out while there was still a chance of retaining one sht I could do this, but seeing you with the baby and the dogs and your faet in too deep I shouldn’t have been in there today with all of you"

"They all wanted you there, Heather And I needed you with me" He slid the pads of his thu you with the baby--" He paused, his gaze intense and filled with e to be such a beautiful mother, Heather So damn beautiful"

The reverence in his words made her tears fall faster, made it even more imperative that she say, "I’m sorry I can’t see you anymore"

"Why?" he de I’ more in love with you with every breath you take, with every caress fro hands, with every sord fros, she forced herself to shrug "It was fun, but--"

"Fun?" It wasman he often was completely disappeared as they faced each other down on an early- San Francisco sidewalk "We both know it’s been a hell of a lot, charismatic man on the planet, to the point where he actually inner by comparison

And not after she’d just watched a fantasy flash before her eyes of hi their baby one day

Desperate to try to save as left of her heart, frantic to try to keep her soul fro with it, she said, "That’s e should stop seeing each other--before either of us gets any deeper"

"Too late" His eyes flashed with surprise and he stared at her in the same stunned disbelief that she’d just experienced moments before "Holy hell, I think I’led at his words, especially the several square inches just beneath her breastbone

She’d never seen Zach look less than steady on his feet Orso fast fro heard the one four-letter word she’d been certain Zach Sullivan would never, ever say

His eht out of her Joy at his words of love warred with disgust at herself for wanting to hear hiain, to insist that they would remain true no reed," she said just above a whisper, her throat raw, the words hoarse "Just sex No e in love"