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She accepted his offering with a grateful smile and that hen she had crept under his arm

“That onderful, wasn’t it?” she asked, tilting her head back to look at hiray eyes still drenched with tears

“It was soed

She sighed in contentiness—her pouty lips curling into a sweet smile

“Thank you for staying tonight, Ty I enjoyed it”

He pinched her chin between hiskiss on her mouth

“I did too,” he said He brushed a curl away from her forehead, and his thumb traced the arch of an eyebrow “I should probably head home”

“I know”

“Get a good night’s sleep If such a thing is possible in that pink atrocity you call a room” That made him pause “What the hell is up with that roohtmare”

She laughed and told him a crazy convoluted story about her brother and her ist of it Her brother had pranked her, and she stubbornly refused to change it back, wanting Hugh to undo the pinkpocalypse he’d wrought upon her room

Crazy sibling bullshit It all made sense now

He chuckled “Just get a decent night’s sleep, okay?”

He reluctantly lifted his arm from around her shoulders, and she shifted away from him He instantly ainst him It took every ounce of willpower he possessed not to snatch her back to his side

And even et up, and walk to the front door

“I’ll see you in the ”

“Goodnight, Ty”

It should not be this hard to leave her If it was this difficult now…he shook his head, refusing to coht