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“I’ to know you I want to”

“Don’t” I study the chipped nail polish ontoe If I can’t keep the principal of a rural middle school, how the hell could I keep a duke? “Please, justdon’t”

Don’t tempt me

You’ll only break me

And my heart couldn’t take that

“I think this is the most honest conversation we’ve had,” his low tone rumbles

“Ours hasn’t been a connection of words” I wince i rain so he can’t see my lie

“I wish I’d done as Isla suggested, insisted really, when I’d discovered you here”

“You mean you wish you’d left” I don’t know if that would’ve been better or worse But when he nods, , and I discover I already know

“I don’t mean how you think If I’d left, I could’ve coiven us tiet to know one another better Perhaps you would’ve been surer of me then” His eyes drink me in, but soht’ve worked for you,” he adds, “but for o once I found you in ain”

As the saying goes, the only path is through

To push through until we burned to an inevitable end, I guess

“So you said You aren’t my type” Our eyes lock, and I watch as his expression seee of e in so, you know”

I open my mouth to protest—to reripped his arm outside of the hotel in London, or ed to resistin that cold lane, hiet the chance as he sweeps my feet from under me

“You see, Holland, your difference has been beautiful to ”

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