page57 (1/2)

“I said it before It’s got to be the world’s biggest coincidence her ass ends up here”

“Once during a conversation, I ed the subject”

“She uprooted her life and moved here for you?”

“She uprooted her life and nificant memories of childhood vacations with her family I was just a man who did a construction job here in her mind”

“Now I’ whiplash This is complicated”

“You have no idea She hasn’t s easy”

He pours hi sos are going fast You sureher in here is sensible?”

“That’s rich co from you I’m not sure you’re in a position to dole out advice”

“Noho’s being a dick?”

“Tell me, if you didn’t have kids when Darby cahts would you have slept alone?”

“You can’t compare my relationship with Darby to this You’ve admitted that Ashlyn hasn’t come clean with you There may be some dark skeletons in that closet”

“You trying to tellass out of this town and leaving everyone in the dust were sio there, Pierce?”

The darkening of his eyes is my answer

“Didn’t think so” I tiltthrown out on your ass”

“My history included a lot hts in a hotel—”

“I’d be very fucking careful how you plan to finish that thought I wasn’t a virgin when I met Ashlyn, far from it This isn’t about a weekend of available pussy I’ve never had a proble laid This is about the wo you fell for the girl on the elliptical without a single conversation”

His jaw ticks with the wheels spinning in his head I o I was on his ass for virtually the same reason He’s worried

“She made an impression, man, unlike any other wo the same mistake”

I can see the questions still rolling through his mind He’s not convinced

“When I say I wasn’tthe same mistake, I mean I went old school Sex isn’t currently on the table”