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"Can’t happen," she said "I hardly reet back"
"What if I get so lonely and distraught I -breasted nymphomaniac while I’ about it, just to teach you a terrible lesson?"
"I’d know"
"You didn’t knoith Ed," he re about that a lot because it’s been a real issue with me, that somehow I didn’t know I think Ed wasn’t that important to ether, and I wasn’t Wouldn’t I have known so was off if he’d meant more to me? I don’t think I cared as much as I wanted to Lord, I think I would have hts a ith me" She took a breath "Maybe I would’ve hts a ith h the hair at Nate’s teht it, Nathaniel, it’s different with you" Then she smiled
"In only three weeks?" he asked softly
She was shaking her head "It didn’t take three whole weeks"
He took a breath, then groaned deeply just before he covered her mouth in a deep, hot, wet kiss that went on and on and on When he finally lifted his lips from hers, he said, "Okay We’ll do this your way We’ll wait until you’re ready And when it’s over and we’re together forever, don’t think you can boss ot a deal," she said, laughing
Nathaniel called Annie twice before noon on Monday First he wanted to know if there was anything he could bring to the farna in the oven for dinner, and Moood red wine?"
The next time he called, he said, "I know you work on Tuesday I’ht, if I pass the brother test, will you come home with me for just a little while?"
"For just a little while And don’t try that ‘I’ into battle and you have to show your love before I leave’ trick Okay?"
And he laughed
That was the best part about Annie--her sense of huht--it was her beauty Her dark red hair, her creamy, freckled complexion, her deep brown eyes But then a sood she was on a horse An accomplished equestrienne And while she would not find the term sturdy at all complimentary, he admired that about her Fortitude had always appealed to hi her, he felt like he was clinging to her as if she anchored hihty, timid, o and capable? Because for Nathaniel, to be chosen by a woth and confidence met needs he didn’t even know he had