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Putting all pretenses aside, Ava said, "Yeah, I ran into hie yesterday"
"Oh, shit! Did you, likespeak to the trah she felt the need to defend the woman who’d stolen her sorta man "I don’t think she’s a tramp, Em Mac wouldn’t be interested in anyone like that"
E the point here This wohtly Until we get rid of her, she is the ‘trao?"
Ava tried to hide her pain as she relayed her run-in with Mac "Well, he alking her to the car when I saw them He helped her inside and kissed her, and then she drove off He saw me and we talked for a h all this? If you leveled with Mac about how you really feel, he’d probably kick the tramp to the curb faster than you could say bye-bye He loves you According to your family, he’s never made a secret of that fact Andyou love hi to let her have him?"
It all sounded so simple when E but si as if she wasn’t good enough for Mac, Ava had finally decided to do everything she could to overcome her fears She had purchased every self-help book that she could find and was seriously considering going to a therapist She was so very tired of being afraid all the ti to Mac how screwed up she really was, and how she felt about hi out from under her Apparently, they had both arrived at the same conclusion--that they needed to move forward Only she had wanted to move toward him, but unfortunately, his moves had taken hi in shock What now? He had been her reason for finally getting her shit together He had waited for her all these years, and just when she thought theyleft her behind And damn it, she couldn’t even blame him "Em, it’s not that simple What airlfriend aside I’ve decided that although I’m too fucked-up to have a relationship with youto need you to masturbate for life and re, "Well, that wasn’t quite what I had in irlfriend Seriously, though, grow a pair or whatever the female equivalent of that is and take Mac back"
Ava reluctantly sh love route today, huh? Given up coddling the poor, irl?" She saw the look of sy toward the door
"You’re one of the strongest people I know, Ava I have no idea what it’s been like for you all these years But I know if you lose Mac, you’ll never oing to have to charge to his rescue You need to save both of you fro a life without ‘the one’"
When the door closed behind Emma, Ava turned to stare out theof her office The beach toas bustling with the last of the summer crowd before cooler weather took over She hardly noticed, though, as her friend’s words echoed through her head Was she strong enough to finally show Mac how she felt? God, where did she even start? He wouldn’t agree to have a drink with her last night, so it was unlikely he was up for an ih her ass off if she knew that at this"how to show a man that you love hi hi sound so simple
When Ava walked into her apartment, she was hit with a wave of loneliness as she realized she was no closer to a solution than she had been earlier E at the store on the way hoazines If there was anything on the cover pertaining tointo her kitchen, she pulled out the bottle of wine she had also purchased You had to love today’s conveniences You could now buy everything short of a car at Walgreens While she was shopping, she’d even paused by the condoht need the the bottle, she filled a glass nearly to the bri The first cover promised twenty sexual hed under her breath She’d have to actually have a h, just in case she ever moved on to the next level As she set it aside, the headline on the next one iht her eyes WANT TO CATCH HIS ATTENTION? UNLEASH YOUR INNER DAREDEVIL! Okay,it open, she found the page number in the table of contents and went to the article The picture showed a wo a motorcycle helrabbed a notepad and a pen off the coffee table Her brother Brant was an organizational freak and she was more like hiazine for help with landing their hlight relevant paragraphs but suppressed the urge
Hours and almost one bottle of wine later, she had filled her notepad with suggestions fro The overall advice was the sa her to be a daredevil Shit, it was either that or start dressing like a slut and ested in a roundabout way that she invite her man to her house for dinner, wear a dress, and sit in front of him Then after a few s and start touching herself According to the author of the article, it would have hi for sure She could feel herself blush furiously just thinking about doing that Mac would probably have her committed "Poor Ava’s finally snapped"
She wanted Mac in every way, but dain She had never had a real sexual relationship with a e, she had needs and desires Her vibrator took the place of a real man in her bed and she had learned to live with that It was the safe way out When she needed to take the edge off, she used it Sometimesmost of the tiasm