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"Daniel, you did it You left your house, the property I can’t believe it"

Daniel looked at the house in the near distance and laughed as if just now realizing what he’d done

"This just sho much I need you I haven’t stepped foot off the property in over three years but for you…here I aer, pressed her face to his neck and inhaled that scent that was hier she saw their life together--the days as for anything they wanted…and they would never have to be apart and there would never be another second of waiting for a door to open just enough for her to slip inside without anyone knowing…she could be Daniel’s and Daniel could be hers and all she had to do was say ‘yes’

"No," she said and let hio

"What? No what?" Daniel looked utterly stricken

"If you were still in there, in your fortress, then I would kno much you needed me That you’re here, you’re free…it’s proof that you don’t need me at all"

"Eleanor Please"

"I’ away to return to the car "I knoon’t help anything but you should know…only leaving him would ever hurt more than this"