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He pushed off the bench and wandered around in a way he kneould piss me off “Why does the whole place smell like coconut?”

I swear I growled

“Well?”

“Because I sometimes oxidize metal and it smells like sulfur, so I use coconut diffusers,” I replied through clenched teeth

He nodded, trailing his fingers over , Dahlia”

Stop trying to soften me!

“Michael” I stepped toward hienuine alarm in my voice

He did Michael turned to me, his expression carefully neutral “Dahlia”

“Please tell -ever-happens-here-Hartwell’ because of me”

“I can’t tell you that”

“Ohaway in vexation What was he thinking? With all the crap already between us, noould end up resenting me even more “This place may technically be a city, but it’s tiny” I whipped around, wide-eyed, feeling frantic, desperate, panicked for hi happens here You cannot give up a career as a detective in Boston to be here forthat for anyone but because we are a mess!”

Michael’s face hardened, and he took a step towardfor the sheriff’s department, so it covers the entire county, not just Hartwell Two: three months For three months, I’

ve laid awake in bed at nightevery fuckin’ inch of you”

I sucked in a breath, feeling a complicated mix of exultation and desolation

“Our night together three o was the first time in nine years I have been truly happy Until you walked away again”