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And it works

He turns and I flash hiirl didn’t coood start, but there’s much more to that story, Miss A Welles, a well-known British surname "You should check out the Collins Barracks Museu "And stay out of any more trouble"

"But then you wouldn’t be able to come and save hter that , do you?"

I don’t knohat I need, but the way he just held ave me a taste of what I definitely want I hold up et it"

"You could have" He hesitates "But then I ain"

My heart flutters with exciteain, too

"See ya, Atorrid"

Oh my God He definitely read the list I stare after him, red-faced, as he crosses the street and disappears froht

See ya? He does realize that he actually won’t, doesn’t he? We live thousands of miles apart It’s virtually iain Unless

I go to that pub again

I thu that it was just sitting in his back pocket not long ago It was also in the trash can, but I’h the little compartments, I find my license and bank card just as they were And all of my money, down to the last euro The few receipts that I reiddy sh everything again And frown It’s not there How could it not be there? Torrid isn’t a word most people use in their everyday vocabulary, which means River definitely saw it So that ivefor it

I feel the grin stretch across ht, on a Saturday night, alone, so I can sit on the stool and watch hih I’ll look desperate E stalker status, maybe

So what, I hear Alex say in ain and he knows I’m interested in him And his brother knows I’m interested And everyone in there knows I’m a tourist I can do whatever I want here and leave it all behind when I get on that plane I am a tadpole in an ocean

Plus, he tookis, it’s becouide for aze out on the stretch of water that cuts through the heart of Dublin, watching the tiny ripples dance along the surface, and consider my next move This is, after all, part of why I took this trip in the first place To experience life while I’ and unattached To make memories that will last me a lifetime To find out if the Amber I’ve known all these years--with an overprotective sheriff father and a practical surgeonover my shoulder--would make the same choices as the one who is free of scrutiny Do I abide by the black-and-white limits I’ve set for myself because that’s who I truly aed? And how far into that gray areaback to my familiar boundaries?

Aaron was inside my familiar boundaries and look how that turned out All of my previous boyfriends have been If I want to test myself, River’s definitely the one to do that with

The proble so obvious This would be so much easier to do if I had Bonnie or Tory here to help occupy my attention and time until he makes the first men are thousands of uess it just depends how desperate I a?"

I flinch fro night at work"