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And her one true love

She had to kiss him then To let him knoithout words, just how o to even more uncomfortable, raw places

"Your epiphany about how a low sense of self-worth held you back fro real, honest love is wonderful The way you’ve dealt with Whitney and banished a powerful e"

"But?"

"No buts" She threaded her fingers through his "How good does it feel to be free of Whitney?"

"Best feeling ever"

As much as she ached to do it, as ood do you think it would feel to forgive your e would say Because he’d deliberately opened the door for her

Knowing a tornado was co, however, didn’t make its power any less fierce It still whipped you up, spun you around, threatened to destroy you coe could have kept hi to break apart

"Whitney was the easy one," he finally said "Everything with her ended up being black and white Cut and dried But with my mother, there are so many shades, so many sides, to what happened"

"Each betrayal is different" Paige’s voice was soft, reaching inside him "Some people are worthy of a second chance Soiveness Whitney was calculated, plotting But your mother was a beaten woman Her choices weren’t necessarily rational"

"No, she wasn’t rational She couldn’t be when she was scared out of her ainst his cheek, her warood, even when the bad threatened to overwhelm She was solid, even in the ers--even through his shirt, the sensation worked sohts and e e But there were ive his mother credit for "Before she left, she did her best to protect s herself And when she found out she was pregnant, she made the only choice she could for the twins, two defenseless babies, to protect thee soothed him with her touch "I’m so sorry for what that man did to you both"

"I aers over her cheek "He had too one a long ti him have that power We both need to e the painful o "My ood people Because of her"

"Do you realize that you’ve been calling her your mother? Instead of Theresa?"