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With her chin propped on my shoulder, it’s like I was never away. This thing with Hunt and Rothburn never happened. “You okay?”
I close my eyes, soaking her in. Now everything feels right.
“I was hoping to see you in the dress,” I murmur.
“Really?”
“Of course.” I blink down at her. How could she doubt me? “I bet you were ravishing.”
She giggles, hiding her face against my bicep. “No one says ravishing.”
“I do.” When it comes to her, there’s no better word. As we all do, she had her hard times during her teen years, battling hormones and skin that was never happy. But then she’d figured out a routine and gone away to college, freaking blossoming like the elegant orchid that she is.
“You really tried to come to the auction?”
We stroll down the beach, dodging errant waves as gulls play in the surf. “I had a ticket and my tux.”
Her gasp is soft, and she stops, looking up at me with wide, confused eyes.
“I don’t understand.”
Glancing over my shoulder, I note we do have a shadow. I don’t want to waste a second with her.
Marko’s words whisper through my mind as they have done several times over the last few days.
What are you waiting for?
Not a damn thing. I don’t know how to make this work, but I know I have to try.
“Five years ago, I didn’t leave because I didn’t want you. I left because I did.”
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