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My pulse was racing andfrom his words I repeated them to myself as I stared at the keys in ht when I asked, "You still have to find her? Is thisfrom you?"

Graham winked, and the corner of hislike that"

I tried to keep my heart in my chest, but it felt i just inches froer to findhe wasn’t

Stranger allowed me to be someone I could never be in real life I couldn’t atteetting caught in my throat I couldn’t try to speak toto hide behind

With Stranger I had my voice because I had my phone to hide behind His beautiful soul endlessly pulled me out from behind the walls I’d built around myself; all the while I remained invisible to him Every day he helped show h he and I both knew that, in reality, he would never hold it

But noith Graham’s cryptic and oddly siht there

But I needed to keep Stranger at a distance I needed to keep hi we had would shatter Our deep conversations thatall of it would be gone

Graham’s voice pulled me from my internal conflict, and I blinked quickly to clear my head as he handed me a piece of paper

"I’m sorry, what?" I asked breathily when I realized I’d ave away everything I was feeling

"There’s a security systehout the house, but the owner had it shut off when he et it turned back on is on that paper"

"Oh Right," I said quickly, still wanting nothing s I knew I shouldn’t

"All right Anything else you need to know?"

Only about a thousand things, starting hat the word "stranger"

I’d run into Graha my date with Keith the weekend before, and he’d told me about one of his friends who needed to rent out his house

The owner hadtransfer with his job I was told there was a possibility of it beco to focus on that now

Because that wasn’t important at the moment Either ould find somewhere more permanent in a year, or ould stay there What was important was that I had a two-bedroom house in Thatch with a backyard forht would be our first official night there

"Uh, no" I shook my head and looked around "No, just thank you some with this I can’t tell you how excited I a for you" He leaned forward and pressed a hard kiss to the top ofheart All of itended