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But that didn’t explain why she was suddenly wondering hoas doing What he was like Did he still eat his cereal dry and read at the table when he was alone? Did he ever think about the Christ the two of them home alone? They’d had McDonald’s for breakfast because neither could cook and Phillip had driven Lara to the store the next day to exchange all of her lousy gifts She’d totally forgotten about those things until this month

She’d ale flashes of photographs rather than impressions of his actual self

Now she wondered

Late at night, curled in Dominic’s arms, she pondered if she’d ever find out If she’d have a chance to

And why it was suddenly so important

Lara pouredthe sa herself that she’d employed all week, Lara took a deep breath, cleared her ined Dominic naked

Oh, yeah

Hardblue eyes and those sexy ht

Worked like a charm

Soothed and happy again, Lara settled her feet on the balcony railing, wondering if—brotherly worries aside—she’d ever been this happy

Especially considering that she was prettyof her life She’d fallen in love with Do was, that didn’t bother her, either

She should be terrified

She should be freaking out

This was scarier than those goons breaking into her apartrabbed her and the creep cadre all balled together

If she were s back to Reno or New York or, hell, even Maryland

She shouldn’t be chilling on the balcony of a hotel roo croissants and thinking about complex HTML code and various sexual positions

Lara broke off a piece of pastry, the buttery flakes ue as she contemplated it all

Yeah

She’d probably slipped around the edge into crazyville

She didn’t take things easy

She didn’t do calm and reasonable

Hell, she didn’t even relax