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The same fear and devastation washed over her, but this time it was so much worse

She loved him, loved hiht it for so long, but she’d had such joy when she’d given in She’d fallen heart first into this with Trick, given hiht out from under her

How could she have been so stupid?

Tears pricked her eyes, one falling down her cheek She brushed it away

No No

She wasn’t going to do this again, wasn’t going to go through a "If you lovethatto happen This ti to be the one to walk away first She was stronger than the last ti and plead for a man’s love, for him to see reason

She had a wonderful career, and stood on the precipice of soed And if he couldn’t see that, if he didn’t love her enough to see that her careerdressed, and paced the living rooer take over the hurt She had downed the last of her coffee by the tiood," he said, and came over to press a kiss to the back of her neck while she was standing over the sink rinsing her cup

She quickly pulled away, leaning down to put her coffee cup in the dishwasher "I’ll make you a cup of coffee"

"I can do that"

She moved some distance from him while he brewed his cup, her arms wrapped around herself as she watched hi around his neck,her want to touch hiry she ith him, she still loved hi," he said as he leaned against the kitchen counter "We should talk about youin here"

He had a sexy half-smile on his face that destroyed her