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She pulls back, hands on ht on “Thank you for everything you’ve done for me”

“It was nothing,” I say,up a bit

She scoffs “It was everything to me”

My cheeks heat up and she releasestoward the table “Sit down You want a cup of coffee?”

“That would be great,” I answer as I move to take a seat

“I’ll grab the coffee and rolls,” Tacker offers, and I do a double-take He truly has changed “You two sit and talk”

Nora saunters to Tacker, puts her hand on his hip, and rises on her tiptoes to kiss him He closes his eyes to receive her lips, and my heart flutters in response to their love For a ht want that someday

Then stark reality slaps me in the face, a reminder I did try it once Love had shit all over o without that kind of devotion, thank you very much

“Sit,” Nora says as she heads to the table

I pull out a chair, plop into it, and reht you some photos”

Nora freezes, butt halfway to the padded chair beside me, her eyes ith surprise

I turn on the tablet “I spent so the Drenica Valley”

Nora finally lowers herself Sucking in a deep breath, she releases it slowly

“If you’d rather not,” I offer quickly It never occurred to ht not want to see the area that had once been her hory for information on Kosovo and what it was like today She’d not been back since she left twenty years ago

“No,” she exclai me a confident sht would be possible I raves and—”