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He sat down naked next to her and kissed her forehead.
“One night together and we are already getting lazy?” He chuckled.
“Hey, the last time we were together I was so out of a workout routine I didn’t know what it was anymore. I stopped working out regularly, eating properly or sleeping normally.”
Xander looked at her seriously.
“Ava, do you still have nightmares?”
She chewed her lip.
“Not really. Not about what happened at Cameron. After the accident, they seemed to stop. But occasionally I have one about the accident as if it was happening all over again.”
“What about the anxiety attacks? Do you still have those?”
“That’s another strange thing. I don’t. They seemed to stop around the time of the accident, too. You would think with all I had to deal with that they would have gotten worse, but no. I haven’t had one in four years.”
“Why do you ask?”
“I was just curious.”
“Please don’t go running today. I want you to stay with me.”
“You can stay here. We have the whole day together. Didn’t you say that Rachel was going to Montreal and would be back tomorrow?”
She turned on her side away from him.
“What is it? Talk to me.”
She turned to look at him.
“It’s just now that I have found you I want to spend as much time with you as possible. I have to leave tomorrow, and we will be apart until you come back to the city. Are you coming back or… what is this with us?”
He put his hand on her chin.
“You’re everything to me; this is serious. I have every intention of coming back to the city. I have things I need to do to get my life together. I want to be the best man I can for you. I want to be able to support you financially, and I won’t be able to do that until I go back to being an attorney.”
“I have plenty of money, Xander. You don’t need to do something you don’t want to do. Why did you quit?”
“I felt like I was being fake. I was working a position where I needed to be honest, and have integrity, yet I was acting nothing like that. I couldn’t do it anymore. But that was then. I miss the law and want to go back. I don’t want your money, no matter how much you have. It’s your money, not our money.”
“You know I would support you any way I can. Where are you going to stay when you come back?”
“I’ll stay with my parents until I can find an apartment. I’m sure my mom would love that. I won’t be able to stay there for too long because my father will drive me nuts.”
“You could stay with me?”
“I appreciate the offer, but I need to do this on my own. We have the rest of our lives to live together, and I want to do this right. I want to properly court you and take you on dates.”
Ava threw her head back and laughed at him until tears leaked from her eyes. She had trouble catching her breath she was laughing so hard. He looked at her bewildered.
“Why are you laughing at me?”
“You want to court me and go out on dates? We are way past that, mister, especially after last night. I don’t care about those things. All I care about is that we are back together. In another few months, I hope to pass my bar exam, and we can be attorneys working side by side.”
“Does the firm still have the non-fraternization policy?”
“They do, but it’s become a bit lax around the office. David Townsend came back but then retired after his wife had her second round of breast cancer. She passed away last year.”
