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"I love ile and perfect and if I told her what I really think she’d believe me and be crushed And who am I to make her believe that? Maybe this is love to her? Maybe we just all love in different ways?"

I shrug e "I’hts?" he asks ht?"

I shakereasons "No," I say decisively "I wouldn’t Because I’hts would never occur"

His suess you’re not a romantic" It’s not a question

I’ on a tropical beach with Vaughn Asher, theabout true love and romance "I a "Fairy tale way, that’s all It’s not real, it’s all fake I don’t s My fantasy"

"So why did you ht?" He takes a few steps towardsabout a real-life roh to see the color of his eyes now And then his hand reaches out and takes mine I want to pull away In fact, I try to pull away, but he’s got that grip on ain "Then what other reason is there to co with it "You’re a movie star I’m starstuck Can you blame me?"

"Did you think I wanted to fk you?"

"Do you?"

"I asked you first"

"I don’t pretend to read h to say, yeah I think you asked ?"

"No," he says quickly "You’re not wrong" He grabs a hold of my shoes and tries to take them, but I pull back "I’ll hold thealows by way of the beach"

"This beach goes to the bungalows?" I flash him a raised eyebrow "They’re not beachfront I know that for sure"

"No, but this beach winds around to the other side of theet there from here And I can replace my public reputation with my private one as alk"

Well I have to ad him to be so… honest "Will I want to know you privately?"