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Harry scaue watched as she licked her lips nervously, tucking a stray lock of hair behind her ears She picked at an invisible piece of lint and cleared her throat She was doing everything but looking up at hi on her chin so that she no choice

“Hey,” he said quietly “We’re okay, right?”

“We…yes, we’re okay,” she replied softly “I just…last night…I’m kind of embarrassed I mean, we’ve only known each other a feeeks and I…I’ve never…I think it was a mistake,” she said in a rush

That pretty pink blush was now a deep red He was going to have to shut this down right now

“Last night wasn’t a ht was about two people who needed to be with someone who mattered” He needed her to understand and he hoped like hell he wassense

She tore her eyes froled his head so that she couldn’t escape him “Hey, I need you to know this When it couy to stay…and trust ht I didn’t want to leave you That’s a new one for me”

He ran his thu her bottom lip “I don’t knohat this means, what us means exactly But what I do know is that I would have spent the entire night with you I wanted to have you again, Sabrina I wanted to be inside you again because when I was inside you, all the noise stopped and a little bit of the darkness in my life disappeared”

Damn Had he just said that out loud? Shocked to realize just how et his own shit together

“Look I don’t knowto be eless And considering that we’re both kind of flying blind here, maybe we should just leave it at that and see where the day takes us”

The kids burst into the cottage and ran past theled behind her

“So we’re good?” Teague asked again, watching her carefully When was the last time this had mattered so much?

After a few —but it was enough “We’re good,” she said softly

“Okay,” he replied with a grin, loving the way she blushed when he winked “I’ve got to put fuel in the boat and then we’re good to go”

The four of the and fishing It was relaxing and busy and by

the time they docked in a town at the northern end of Lake Muskoka called Bala, the four of theiant proud