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He chuckled as fond recollections flashed through his mind “Yeah, I used to tease her and call her Rapunzel When ere dating, I’d go over to her house late at night and call up to her second-story bedrooly shout out, ‘Rapunzel, let down your hair’” Even now, she re up, it was as though her mother had tried to keep her locked up in an ivory tower, keeping Raevynn as untouchable as possible, which had forced the two of them to keep their romantic relationship quiet, private, and under the radar
Tehed “Is that how you snuck into her bedroom?”
“No” His ht “That would have been a helluva lot of hair pulling”
“You never know,” Teirls like that kind of thing”
He shook his head, his s,” he added, since they’d been seventeen and eighteen respectively “And unfortunately, we didn’t have enough tis out”
They’d only had sex once Afteraround and Collin doing his best to keep Raevynn’s virginity intact, one afternoon, believing they had hours all to theed him to make her his in every way Her words had been so explicit they still had the ability to make him hard when he recalled that moment Fuckthat just ashiht body he knew he’d never be the same without her in his life always That day, he’d fallen so deeply, irrevocably in love with Raevynn Walsh but never had the chance to tell her before they
’d been torn apart
And the truth was, no matter how et Rae, his heart still belonged to her His greatest fear was that it alould and he’d never be able to ly done with hers Not just her singing career that had her touring all over the world but the fact that she’d moved on fro country singer Zane Bishop The two of the that another nited all kinds of jealousy inside him
“Does she know you’re here at the ball?” Tehts
Needing adrink of bourbon before replying “No We haven’t been in touchin a very long tiain—if she hated hi away from her when she’d pleaded with hier even a blip on her nize hi chest ache
“Maybe you should sneak backstage and surprise her when she’s done perforested, s at him “I promise to look the other way and not alert security”
The other woiving her idea serious consideration “Maybe I will”
Te on her way through the charity ball, leaving Collin alone to think about how a reunion with Raevynnhim after all these years would be He’d only coli for watching her froh Given the opportunity, he wanted to see her, face-to-face He wanted the chance to right a wrong To apologize for what had happened all those years ago and explain his reasons and actions