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She stepped away, tired all the way to her soul "You need topermanent anyway"

"No, I didn’t Because love is just a word until it’s attached to a person I didn’t understand what it felt like to want to be with one person longer than a night or two With you, I saw beyond When I think about o I’lad you found the answers you needed, but I can’t do this anys can’t be fixed"

"Watch me"

His words should have sounded like a threat, but somehow, they were er

Raven left and swore not to think about it again

Dalton stood on the porch and watched her drive away

His insides hurt Holding her in his ar home But he didn’t expect her to believe hiiven hiain and trust that he wouldn’t hurt her He needed to be in this for the long haul, even if it was possible she would never give him another chance

It was a risk he had to take

He heard his brothers’ footsteps They flanked hi drive

"How’d she take it?" Cal asked

"Good She cried I got to hold her"

Tristan nodded "Will she forgive you?"

"I hope so I need to proveto take tiesture? You know, like they do in those romance novels and stuff?" Tristan asked

Dalton shook his head "Nah, it’s fiction for a reason Wo terhting for soht"

"I think she’ll forgive you Eventually," Cal said "In the meantime, we’re here for you Whatever you need"

"Thanks"

"But you’re still paying me for some new bottles of whiskey"

Dalton shot hihter

Chapter twenty-nine

What the hell was he doing?

Raven looked up Perched on the bar stool to the far left, he sat quietly, iPhone in hand Three weeks had passed, and he still continued the saht, she’d explained quietly that he needed to leave He did, but he ended up sitting in his Bronco the entire ti until she closed up He followed her hoot in, then drove away