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She slid onto the bed and grabbed her phone back, opening her purse so she could put it out of sight

That’s when she spied a s She stared at it for a long, long tiht soain until her eyes blurred Slowly she picked up the case and opened it; an eency supply of tampons

The blood drained fro back three ht when their arguments had turned heated and not unexpectedly, passionate There was always so ry sex Lots, of hot, angry sex

And the next night they were over

Shane Gallagher was the only man she’d ever love and for the last threeapart Officially separated because Bobbi was, if anything, the kind of woman who paid attention to details

And if they were no longer together, then they were no longer together on paper

Of course her sisters had their say Billie thought she was overreacting and needed to take a step back Betty thought she was just plain crazy And Gramps? Well, he’d just shook his head in that way he had, and patted her on the shoulder

She’d pushed for the separation, but then she’d had her reasons Shane Gallagher owned her heart, but he’d been careless with it And maybe she’d been careless with his; he wasn’t the only one to blae But the fact was, the last words they’d shared face to face had been awful and those spoken barbs were nearly three months old Was the result of those words and all that hot, angry sex, growing inside her?

A sob caught at the back of her throat and she shook her head Was it possible? After all this ti she wanted, when it was the worst possible time, ever, in the history of worst possible times?

Bobbi Jo rolled onto her side, exhausted She couldn’t process it right now She closed her eyes, and as the tured to fall asleep But her drearin, and the kind of touch that melted her from the inside out

She’d coet about Shane Gallagher but the joke was on her He’d followed her anyway