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"Don’t Please don’t apologize It just hed "Listen, Kacie I have no idea what to say except I’ht in ure out why I did what I did"
"First things first--why did you drink?" I searched his face, looking for a sincere answer
"Honestly?" He looked up at irls at the park just setsorry for myself when my friend Brett called Before I knew it, ere in a bar and I was throwing back rum and Cokes like I just came in from the desert"
I studied his face as he stared down at his hands, clearly ashamed
"What does this enuinely concerned
"I’ to check in s a couple tio every day for awhile I’e I did… to you"
"Yeah, that part sucked, but it wasn’t completely your fault" I took a deep breath "Had I told Brody that you were back and we’d talked, he wouldn’t have reacted the way he did"
"It wasn’t your fault I got drunk and came over uninvited" He shook his head
"That’s true It’s over and done with, though; nothing either of us can do about it Now I just have to try and figure out how to fix things with him"
"That’s actually why I wanted to talk to you," he said slowly His eyes caught mine and my stomach sank
"That first time I saw you here, at work, I felt like there was a reason ere put together at the same hospital at the same time I mean, what are the odds? Out of all the hospitals in our area, out of all the departments you could have been placed in, out of all the shifts between the two of us… we ended up in the same room at the exact same time"
"I would call that du" I didn’thonest
"I realize that For me, it seemed like o"
I started to roll rabbed one on and, as one pissed-off hockey player reirls away I didn’t h That daht, you did," I said quietly
"That’sto feel like I was a victi the height of my addiction were just that--my decisions I have to own theo of my hand and sat back in the chair "Life is about choices Every day we s as s like if we should leave our family today Well, I uys and I suppose in some ways, that’s true Butwith all this?" My eyes were da our past every tiain