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“You’re such a good guy,” she gushed, wrapping her arain why I don’t want to keep you forever?”

“Because according to you, you’re a bad girlfriend,” he supplied, tongue in cheek “But I think it’s because you don’t want to be tied doith soamous”

Sheof her heart rate Was he right? Was she afraid of trusting again? Possibly “That was the ressive state,” she said with a sood offense

But Layton wasn’t giving up “Fair enough How’s this? Because you’re afraid I’ to be cluh we’re nothing alike”

Oh, he hit the nail on the head “No one ever starts out acting badly,” she told hi that she was still affected by what Riker had done It was hard to think of yourself as a strong, independent wo the wounds from the past “That comes later”

“Only if you’re hardwired that way fro too , feeling, tasting and loving each other as if the world were about to end

By the ti and raided the kitchen to make French toast and bacon

“Easiest way to enerous bite of French toast “I swear I’ll be four hundred pounds by the tiht of cutting out carbs or going paleo or doing any of those crazy restrictive food plans I need variety I need sugar and carbs and grains! I rue the day someone tries to put me on some kind of diet”

“Hey, er boobs, so eat up all you want”

She laughed “You’re impossible There’s more to life than boobs”

“Debatable”

She finished her breakfast and then she grabbed her phone only to find it dead She’d forgotten to charge it last night and noas completely dead and it would take about fifteen nal

“Can you call Erik and see if he answers? My phone is deader than a doornail”