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Feverishly I circled ain Please, I begged silently Please, let me come

But then, just as his movements beca that wall I kneell The one I’d never broken through He, however, was oblivious to roundsilently, but it was too late He thrust one, two ti Cheated All that heat and desperation trickling away, leavingwith dissatisfaction

I finally woke up fro noise broke through the fa of disappoints told httime excursions

My vibrator Which I had been using earlier to little effect And which I’d obviously reached for in the throes of the dreausted, I threw it across the rooly

A week later

Dublin airport

‘Kitty Cat, I’ to miss you’

‘Don’t get all e, too, and you kno it ious disease’ I looked around at the other passengers filing into the security line and hissed sotto voce, ‘And stop calling me Kitty Cat I’m twenty-three now’

Mary, my older sister by five years, rolled her eyes, ‘Fine Caitlin Ryan, I’ to miss you’

I gave her an approving look and bit back a smile ‘That’s better’

We were both just expelling hot air, avoiding the elephant standing beside us Johnny So I took a deep breath and voiced my fears ‘What if I find him and he doesn’t want to talk to me?’

My sister went pale and I wanted to throttle ain She didn’t deserve this Not a

fter everything we’d been through since our parents had died ten years ago and she’d becoht

‘He would be ecstatic to see you He’s just ’