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"Give the boy some ti Heaven only knohat he said to Tucker It ht take him a while to coether, I don’t believe for one second that Tucker plans to walk away from you forever"

She wished she had as much confidence in Tucker as her mother did Unfortunately, she had all the proof she needed He hadn’t stood up to her father, and he’d deliberately backed away from her

It was over

She only wished she was over hily disappointed in hiht She wanted to lay all the blame at Tucker’s feet, but she couldn’t

The worst part of it all was he’d never once talked to her about any of this Other than the night she’d showed up at his place to vent her feelings, and that conversation had been decidedly one-sided She’d walked out and they hadn’t really talked things through So she had no closure

Not that it would help if she did It was still going to hurt, but maybe they needed to have a sit-down, rational, two-sided conversation An official end to their relationship

Then, maybe, she could start to heal

TUCKER SAT IN HIS LOCKER AT THE BALLPARK, THINKING ht

He’d spent as much time as he could with his parents, because he didn’t see the to catch his flight back to St Louis, giving him plenty of time to make it to the ballpark for warm-ups

But before he went out there, he needed to e

I’d really like to see you I’ured she was probably at work, so he didn’t expect an answer

Except his phone buzzed

I don’t know

He stared at his phone for a while, at the answer she’d given him

Yeah, he deserved that He deserved worse than that

He typed a response