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“Just so you know, I’”

Chapter Nineteen

There was so more open and approachable in his demeanor that confounded her Vicki didn’t knohat toit would last, she didn’t know if she could trust it

She was buckled in the back seat of the car, and they were out in traffic before he spoke again

“I thought about you every day,” he ad for her phone Her head jerked up, and her eyes flew to the rearview mirror, but he appeared to be focused on the traffic

He had thought about her every day? Was that the sa her? Did she even care anymore? She told herself she didn’t, but that was a bald-faced lie

“I orried about you and hoped you were taking care of yourself,” he continued

“Why would you think I wouldn’t be taking care of myself?” she asked and was insulted when his jaw literally dropped at the question

“Why?” he repeated, his voicehis incredulous expression “Because you’re stubborn, and you don’t always act in your own best interests”

That brought her hackles up “Are you saying I’m self-destructive?”

“No, honey…” His voice was gentle, but it still made her bristle “You’re honestly one of the most well-adjusted people I know”

She laughed, but the sound was spiced with bitterness “You should widen your circle of acquaintances if that’s true I used to think I ell-adjusted before…”

Her voice petered out as she considered what she’d been about to divulge She didn’t want to play this strange game with Ty anymore

“Before?” he pro at the seam of her phone case “Vicki?”

Damn it

Throwing caution to the wind, uncaring of how lared at his reflection in the mirror “Before you, Ty Before what happened between us I don’t blame you, it was my fault I knew exactly what you wanted and expected frorubby and small after each encounter? That was on me”