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Author: Robyn Carr

"Eric, you should’ve told ht the worst"

"Look, I understood about your father and brother It wasn’t so with a father who seemed to never approve of you, you had him back I kne important that was and there was so little tis with hiret anything" He brushed back her hair "You had to knoilling to wait as long as I had to wait I just didn’t want to be there without you"

"I’ve been gone overnight before," she said

"This was different There was no end in sight Let’s go noe’ll go back there tonight Let rab a shirt for tomorrow"

"Stop Do you have a wohed at her He rolled with her until she was on top of him "Laine, there could never be anyone else for me I love you I say it every day I show you when I can How long can you visit?"

"Forever," she said "But only if the life I want is here I know this will come as a shock, but I’m not here for the view"

"Forever?" he asked "What about your dad?"

"My brother and the housekeeper ca to visit hiet back there every month for a few days, but I want to live here I can handle his finances fro to force you into a co"

He smiled into her eyes "I was afraid you wouldn’t be able to come back Not that you wouldn’t want to, but that you couldn’t And I couldn’t stay in that house alone because you were everywhere I could see you on the deck, in the kitchen, in the bed I could see you in that chair you like to read in I could feel you curling into me when I was on the couch I missed you so much, wanted you so ether--I could taste you sometimes You conquered me the first day I saw you and once I let you inside my little protective armor, you took me down I’ve loved you since the first time I kissed you and I’ll never love another woman I can barely remember when I didn’t love you and I don’t think anyone on earth has ever had a love like this I’ paja pajamas I’m a pathetic shell of a man who lives for one woman and I don’t even want to sleep in our bed unless I’ for you If you weren’t able to come back, I would’ve come to you If you wanted me Because really, there has never been a woman in my life, in my whole life, that I could feel in my sleep That I could taste and hear and smell and feel You’re inside me and I love you I will love you forever"

"Oh, Eric," she said, touching his face, her eyes glistening "You’re not afraid that I’ll stay gone anyain, I won’t let that question hang in the air"