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“I trashed the fucking rooone Destroyed Every beautiful thing that one”

The pain in his eyes tugged on her so fierce She reached for him but he shook his head and looked away

“My Grandfather hadand vandalis possession Public drunkenness The list of charges was longer than I re , I’d end up dead I re to help me up and I shoved him away I think I even took a shot at him and to this day I can’t remember if I hit him or not You knohat I told him?”

“Shane,” she whispered, her hands cupping his face

“I told athered hi his shoulders soothingly

“I told hi I ever said to the man I loved more than my father”

“He knew you didn’t mean it You have to believe that, Shane”

But he ignored her “He told e Newcoot jail tih That one day he hoped I would see that pain isn’t the answer He told h for hi to stand by and watchand by the time I realized that he had saved me, that maybe I could becoone”

The Grandfather clock chi them both jump

“Shit,” Shaneafter one of the best nights of my life”

Bobbi gazed into his eyes She smoothed his hair away from his forehead and kissed hiathered hiers and eyes

I love yo

u I need you I’m sorry

All of these were phrases that were pretty much self-explanatory and yet they were just siveness she didn’t deserve

How could she?