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“I’ll be here”

I reach intoit out while Baby sniffs it She takes it from me, and I smile like an idiot as I listen to her chomp

“That’s the good stuff, right?”

A second later, her eyes rise to ot a bunch of little bits of apple, so I keep her busy while ait for Finley When the door opens again, she’s got her hair in braided pig-tails and she’s wearing dark leggings, a light green jacket, and boots, with a hiking pack flung over one shoulder

“Is that apple?” she asks

“Hope that’s okay”

“What do you think, Baby?” She reaches down and scoops the ewe up “Her first apple” She peers over Baby’s head, her lips quirked up and pressed together, ry duck “Very crafty, Carnegie Win over the ewe”

I laugh like I have no idea what she’s talking about Like I didn’t spend a bunch of ti up an apple, mostly to impress Finley

While she disappears inside with Baby, I step off the s over to some brush near the cliffs behind the doctor’s quarters I hear the thunder of waves breaking below I think of Finley, only ever looking down the cliffs—no thought of leaving I wonder if she even looks down at all Maybe she can’t

Athe door behind her and pressing a small sticky note to it She doesn’t speak, just smiles, a little bit rass She covers the distance between us with one long stride and stops right by h that my dick perks up and I want to touch her

“Careful, Sailor Just beyond the vegetation here is a steep drop-off”

I look into her eyes and feel ers brush one of her braids “I like this” My voice sounds low and husky, like I’rit ht as she looks away shyly “Thank you”

“Let’s get o now?”

Her thin brows notch as if she doesn’t understand

“Can you be away fro?”