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A fewed into a pair of shorts that show off her legs and make me want to have them wrapped around my waist, and a si theI don’t want to stop looking at her, and I desperately need to stop thinking like this if I’ to survive with my heart in one piece

“What’s this?”

“Honeymoon picnic,” I say

She sits on the opposite side of the blanket, still looking at me warily

I sigh “I wanted to apologize I should have told you what I was planning with the photographer”

Her face hardens “Thanks to you I’ve been getting shocked texts frorateful randfather doesn’t pay attention to that kind of news”

“It needed to happen”

“Why?”

Taking a deep breath, I push aside my distaste for the subject “If we showed up out of nowhere, married, my parents would be more likely to suspect it for what it is—a set up If the photos appear in the papers and the gossip columns beforehand, and it looks like I ht not be happy about it, but they’ll believe me”

Ally shakes her head “You really should have toldfor even worse photos, weren’t you? That’s why you said, ‘This is only for me,’ and closed up those curtains as if there were spies at theBecause there were!”

I wince “I changed my mind when I saw you Felt you There was no part of you that I wanted to share with the world, and I’lad that I didn’t let it happen”

She doesn’t look happy, but souess that I should thank you for that Even if setting it up at allasshole”

“I know”