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“Does anyone?” He stepped forward “Does anyone really know Abigail Foster?”

Standing in the ce about love and Erin and Josh and Abby, To to do with the past He wanted to reach over and demand Abby let him in Demand that she really trust him

She aze evenly “No No, they don’t And that’s just how I plan to keep it”

Toh “Well, honey, isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black You talk about o’ of the past when you’re too afraid to even let anyone in at all”

Silence filled the ce Now Abby knew she’dto happen between thehost And at this point, h deal that she didn’t want to squander it on so of someone else

“So what now? You run away again?” Tom accused

“There’s nothing to keep me here, is there?” Abby paused as the words sank in before saying quietly, “I’d like to go home now”

“I promised you dinner”

“I don’t think either one of us is in the ht now I have a frozen pizza It’ll be fine”

Tom made a move as if to protest further

“Please, Tom Just take me home”

He brushed by her and went back to the truck, opened the door and stood next to it Monition and turned to face her He was still annoyed, she could tell And so deeper below the surface than sier

“I believed you when you were sure no one would I have been there for you, and maybe I should remind you that you were the one who put a stop to whatever it was that was happening between us in your bedroos if I didn’t care about you in some way, you really haven’t bothered to know me at all”

Abby was pissed off that Toe to ed him, but more than that she was tired Today had been too eivings but at least her heart wasn’t tangled up in someone else’s