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Craig sat in stunned silence

She wasn’t finished either Leaning her hands on the table, she brought her face close to his “Rule nuamous relationship: You never flirt with another woman, especially in front of your current woman There are no exceptions to this rule”

“Mu ju me that tips are more important than the woman you love?”

He flushed hot with frustration “It’s not about the tips It’s about the principle of the thing”

“Rainyou to respect her enough not to flirt with so overly romantic It’s what most women would ask of you It’s what I asked of your dad e first started seeing each other and he was playing it cool He’d never dated just one woot serious I told hi at all He sed his da to s your dairl takes you back Or do you not love her after all?”

Panic set in iested her words He’d been so convinced that Rain was being overly sensitive that it never even occurred to hi “I don’t know if she’ll take me back”

“You won’t know until you try”

Rain

I missed hiht I’d lost Darcy forever I’d felt this kind of gnawing feeling of powerlessness in ut, my chest, even in the ain, except this ti

And I hated him for it

But I hated him because I really loved him

It was my own fault, I decided I knew froest flirt to grace God’s green earth He was heartbreak waiting to happen I knew it, I knew it, I knew it! Yet I’d walked into his open arms with a smile and practically set hione? They’d been so easily swept aside, and for what? Orgasiven h, he listened, he was easier to be around than anyone I’d ever met, and he’d made me feel special for a ti at my phone screen It told

The fa my eyes “Goddamnit!” I hissed and pressed the heels of ht hours non-stop and I was er than this I was But it would help if Craig would just stay out of my life co Possibly because he’d left soet his stuff back to him, however, I’d planned to do it when I could face hi to burst into tears

“Leave ain