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And that he really did love her

But he remembered that first limo ride from the San Francisco airport, the way he hadn’t asked her if she would come with him to his house He’d demanded it, as if her opinion hadn’t mattered

He no that her opinion

"Where do you want James to take you?"

She looked at him in surprise, but the expression disappeared as quickly as it had co around to hold the door open for Anna, Jashit on the bottom of his shoe His assistant waited until she was safely inside and the door was closed to say, "You’re an idiot A co idiot"

James didn’t wait for a response, just went around to the front of the car and slid in behind the wheel

With Cole’s wife inside the car with hi his fingers around the door handle to pull his wife out of the limo, to work like hell to convince her to coive hias and the limo sped away from the curb so fast it almost took Cole’s hand off

"Fuck!"

Cole took off across the arrivals lanes at a full-on sprint, dodging each car as if he were on the field instead of a crowded airport, until he found his car Ju inside, he sped toward the exit with his car door still open, barely closing it in ti off on a cement pillar He threw a hundred-dollar bill at the ticket taker and alet to Anna

He didn’t knohat he could possibly say, what he could possibly do, to get her to give hiive her up

Not without a fight

Not until he knew for sure that she didn’t love him anymore

He turned into her street just as Ja down the steps back to the li a shit if it was towed or even totaled by another car, Cole jumped out He barely heard Jaoddaraphers clicking pictures outside as he ran past his assistant and up the stairs

Praying she hadn’t yet locked the front door, knowing that she was so trusting she often forgot, he pushed against it

And it opened

Anna looked up fro upby the hall table In that ht he caught so from him all day

Love

"Anna, we need to talk"

She stood up, leaving her mail on the floor, her dark hair silky as it fell over her shoulders, her long lashes al her ocean eyes fro at her le breath he took

"I don’t want to talk"