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“I don’t want your pity or your apologies”

“What is it you want, Faith? I told you I still wanted you, that I wanted to explore as happening between us You were the one to say no What would you have ht between us?”

She studied him for several seconds, then lowered her ar you can do, Vale It’s too late”

He realized that now, realized that the e their professional relationship

Maybe he’d handled her rejection of hi clearly, still wasn’t thinking clearly

Faith was leaving him

No, not hi the clinic

Hell, saer be a part of his life

If she refused to acknowledge that they’d had a chance for so special to develop between the was for the best

Maybe that was the only way for either of theet the weekend in Cape May

“You win, Faith,” he said in a low voice “You’re an excellent neurologist and the clinic will be taking a hard hit to lose you Still, you can leave if that’s what you want, but you know I don’t want you to go Not personally and not professionally”

He didn’t want her to go He wanted her to stay, to say they could pick up where they’d left off But they’d just end up back at this same point Why delay the inevitable? Faith didn’t want the sas he did

“What you want is irrelevant to me, Vale Totally irrelevant”

Had she still been screaht have put her words down to e She spoke with a calhts and was answering, assuring him that she didn’t want hih

“You don’t mean that”