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His dark eyes shone at her for a moment before he smiled “Yes, ma’am”

He turned around, and stoically holding in any sounds of pain, she ed to shove her shorts down over her ankles, step out of they and she had to pull the drawstring in as tight as it would go, but she did feel better “Okay,” she said, gingerly bending to pick up the damp shorts

“I’ll throw theested, and disappeared

When he ca out over the water He ca her back against the hard wall of his chest “Don’t ever scare ain,” he murmured

“I didn’t o for a run”

“To avoid the house because you kneas co”

She turned, looking up into his face There was real pain in his features He truly had been worried about her And it hurt hiht in a thunderstorm than in the same house with him

He’d saved her today Despite their screwed-up relationship, he’d searched for her and pulled her out and doctored her wounds with gentleness

Abby sighed, resting her forehead on his broad chest She was in love with him, she finally admitted to herself And it was

n’t just because he’d rescued her but because the very act of it had showed her the kind of man he was He was the one she went to with her secrets It didn’t ed to someone else and probably alould That was coht now hers was telling her that To to ever happen to her It was, in thatrealization of her life

“I wasn’t running away fro his face “I just needed to clear my head”

“I don’t understand”

“I know But maybe it’s time you do Can we sit down?”

Her knees ached as she followed him to the sofa The cushions were deep and thick and she sank into the but it was cozy She thought she could probably sit here and watch the birds and the ocean for hours

“This place suits you, you know Peaceful A good place to hide away from the world”