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Although she would have welco, she also ad clearly Probably from lack of sleep and a broken heart

Why had she let Cole in? Why had she trusted him?

Wasn’t that the crux of the —she refused to call it sex despite hi made love with Cole, only its less-than-ideal conclusion

Not that she’d expected clai love and a proposal Not from Cole

Which left her wondering what exactly she had expected?

But even as she thought the question, she knew the answer

She had expected his love

Because she’d believed he loved her That’s why she hadn’t hesitated to make love with him That as crazy as it had been, he’d fallen in love with her years ago and had come to win her heart

He’d had her heart fro

She hadn’t known that’s what she’d been feeling for hiet him, hadn’t been able to not want him, no matter how much she’d tried

Which put a dark and gloomy cloud over her future

If she hadn’t been able to forget Cole before, hoas she supposed to move on with her life now, after what they’d shared over the past six months?

“You about done?” Suzie asked, crossing to where Amelia worked

“About”

“I’ve finished everything I’ve got to do and plan to go ashore” Suzie eyed her worriedly, placed her hand on Aht?”