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Fifteendinner from a local Italian place that delivered I didn’t feel , but I didn’t want to cheat him out of his pizza He’d earned it Jordan did what I wished I could have done a year ago--s for the food to arrive, we changed out of our work clothes I ies--one for my swollen lip and one for his hand, which was now bruised in addition to being scraped He was sitting on the couch reading e hi of ice He thanked h dinner, Jordan re before we reached that aard moment where I didn’t know if he wanted me to stay over or I should ask him to drive me home

In the uncomfortable silence, he broke out a spare laptop and told ed onto a character on the same server, a svelte, sexy elf wo but looked at hi heat rise to my cheeks at the realization that he’d created that character, thinking about me Or maybe, like ain? My on Epoch together He gave oblins, worked on quests, laughing until I yawned With that, he reached over and closed ive him the out "Sid textedpause "Do you want to go home?"

It was hard to breathe I turned to him, looked up into his face and shook my head

He raised his hand to my chin and tilted ainst entle, tender kiss, and it was obvious he was being careful with ht But even that was enough to getalive I leaned e of the couch and looked into his eyes, which looked gray-green in this light I raised my hand to his ja peppered with a sexy five o’clock shadow "Thank you…no one’s ever stuck up forhis jaw and his eyes closed, as if savoring the touch "It wasn’t anything more than you deserve, April I just wish you realized it"

My eyes stung and I blinked, surprisingently shook his head "It has to coot to know deep in your heart that you are worth sticking up for But I’ tiotten his fairytales straight

I knehat he was referring to The entire tiht that my mother’s love--if it could even be called "love" at all--cas and needs were more important than mine or anyone else’s

That’s why I’d never stood up for s, never let her kno deeply she wounded limpse of what it had been like for h to discern that our dysfunctional relationship was at the root of my problems

"How could you know me so well in the short aed and sighed, his war over my face "Let’s just say I understand you because…I’ve been therefor a long ti to hi exactly in his footsteps"

But I had options that he didn’t His fas ith his dad But for , the sih the personalities involved were so very different

"Don’t you find it weird that we both have farandpa…my mom Even my dad with that lunch today"

He tilted his head "Yeah, that is weird But you ahed "You o so badly It’s just that it seemed like you both wanted to talk to each other And you both told me separately that the other person would never want to hear what you had to say So I just thought…" I shook my head "It doesn’t matter I shouldn’t have meddled"