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No one ever took care of her before the way he did, or looked after her or just made her smile The few times she’d had a boyfriend none of thenored it or dumped her

As difficult as it had been the first ti to have to do it again and risk her heart, because she knew there would never be another man that made her feel the way he did or loved her as much as she hoped he loved her

"At this point I don’t knohat the hell to say or do to show you how much you mean to me I tell you I love you and you play it off I tell you I want to buy you a house where we can raise our faht was not the best first date, but you knohat?" he asked, pulling onto their street "I don’t care if no one kneere together for the last couple of months and I could care even less if they have a problem with it"

He pulled into their driveway and threw the truck in park and killed the engine, but he didn’t make a move to leave "I don’t care what I have to do, Zoe I’ ti I can do to change the past I won’t sit here and lie to you and tell you that I’ll never screw up again because we both know that I will, but I will never hurt you on purpose, Zoe You have to know that"

Trevor sighed heavily as he rubbed his hands down his face "I’ht, Zoe, but you need to understand that I’o Not now, not ever I’ll let you return to your apartment if that’s really what you want, but you should know that if youor the one next to it and if you quit your job and go somewhere else I’ll just follow you there, too," he said calmly, which was a little freaky, she had to adnot to smile It was really sweet in a Bradford kind of way

"Yes, but if it coe we’ll just call it a little

"And you really think the judge will buy that?" she asked, reaching for her door because she was exhausted and even though she was trusting him not to break her heart, she still needed a little s out

"Probably, they bought it the last few times so I have no doubt they’ll buy it this ti about, but then decided it that it was probably for the best that she didn’t know

Chapter 32

"What the hell is wrong withroo his toes, again

With a sh he pulled his foot back only to have Max take that as his cue to renew his earlier attack He winced as he gently pulled his foot away fro his head back and wondering why he’d let Zoe push hiain

Well, at least she wasn’t sleeping in her own apartht as the two pups worked as one to pull his blanket away from him To make them happy he made a half-hearted attempt to pull the blanket back, but after a minute he let them win Of course if he hadn’t snuck into her aparto and shut off her heat she’d probably still be there "thinking"