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Goddaround rules Keep things light, keep it all about sex Maybe if he’d stuck to his guns, he wouldn’t feel like so at his heart with a pair of rusty pliers

"I’m sorry," he whispered

"Yeah So aed forward and pulled her into his ar, agonizing ht kiss on his lips "Good-bye, Gage"

His throat was too tight to answer, so he settled for a jerky nod

He’d expected the pain, the accusation, the anger But it was the disappointment in her eyes that ripped hi he saw before she walked out of the room, and out of his life

…

Stupid, stupid, stupid

The chiding internal voice followed Skyler all the way out to her car So So

God, she should have seen it sooner, but she’d convinced herself that Gage was letting her in That slowly but surely she’d succeed in earning his trust

But she hadn’t realized that trust was unattainable She’d been chasing a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow Trusting so yourself be truly vulnerable, and Gage had banished those e as silly as love would change that

Her fingers shook as she turned the key in the ignition She drove away fro where the hell she would even go She didn’t want to return to her empty house, which e in her life, howsomeone to spend tiht as well have been living alone

Hospital or museum Those were her options Lacey and May would let her cry on their shoulders and listen to her vent, so she desperately needed to do at theinto a parking spot that didn’t belong to either Boston General or the city’s modern art museum