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She was getting her happy ever after, she just wanted the same for him

It was a shame life just wasn’t that tidy

Gabe set off again, wiping the perspiration off his forehead as he increased the tempo He didn’t need a happy ever after He didn’t deserve one

But she did

She deserved the whole damn fairy tale Paris at her feet

He just hoped that she would nised that

The thought reverberated around his head, the echo getting louder and louder

Someone else

His sto forward to alleviate the cramp, hand on his side

No, he didn’t want that for her at all

Oh, hoished he could be that altruistic, that selfless, that he could put her needs first But he didn’t think he could survive watching her laugh with another ns to another y with another man

Kissing another man

Raising her child with another man

And there would be so it alone, there would be She ht not have fallen in love in the past but she’d had partners whenever she needed the before the new, softer Polly was snapped up? Opened up her heart to some lucky man?

They’d be queuing around the block

And he was just going to let them?

Gabe straightened up, oblivious to the people walking around hi to step around a hu in their well-trodden path

Of course he wasn’t going to let them!

I like you, she had said More than once What must it have taken for the proud Polly Rafferty to say those words? And he hadn’t reacted Hadn’t told her