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No, daain because the idiot that she was hadthat he just didn’t want it She suddenly whirled on hi from her eyes no matter how hard she tried to hold the looked confused, and she wanted to laugh and cry all at the same time

“My heart,” she told him with as le le kiss I shared with you I want the didn’t move, and McKenna felt like an overemotional lunatic, but she couldn’t see that made sense “You need to leave, and I don’t want your help I can take care oflike a baby with her face in her hands When she heard the door click shut behind hi sat in his car, staring at his house He couldn’t bring hiet out of the car just yet because he still wasn’t sure why he was here He was half teo back to McKenna’s, pull her into his ars he knew she wanted to hear

Watching her heart break because of hiined And the worst part of it all, he did care about her Hell, he would almost venture to say he had fallen for her, but he didn’t quite believe it

Ho could he possibly have fallen for her?

What they had was nothing more than an extremely passionate case of lust That’s all it was He hadn’t known her long enough for it to be anything ht, and he wasn’t capable of giving a woiven His entire life His happiness, his sense of self All of those things his father had given hiswatched his father da with her

He wasn’t the ive to one wo left for anyone else Just like how his parents were He knew they loved him because he was their son But the love they had for one another blinded theht have taken years, but his father somehow found another wo run, left Tag without Cole had never understood Tag’s issues because his mother still, to this day, doted on him and loved him the way adidn’t have it in hi away Where would that leave hier be the man he had worked so hard to be

Instead, he would be nothing

Except, when he thought about McKenna, he sensed that there was so When it came to her, even in the short aed hi himself, he see his forehead against the steering wheel, Tag wanted to curse hi such a jackass He could co

McKenna Thorne scared the shit out of him

Why? Because he felt too damn much for her

Ever since their eyesabout her And each and every encounter since then only proved that she was the one wolass beneath a jackhammer

He couldn’t afford to care for someone like McKenna She was too outspoken, too ornery, too funny and cute and s that he wanted but didn’t knohether he could actually have

Tag wished like hell he had a sad story to tell, one that would explain why he feared co in, even his parents’ love for one another didn’t see had refused to ever allow a lover to get close, he couldn’t even bla hiht for the shower It was high tiether because this was not the man he was And he didn’t have time to contemplate love

Because he had already decided it wasn’t for hi nothing more than a couple of hours where he didn’t have to think about anyone or anything The second he spotted Luke, he knew he’d coreeted with a handshake when he approached