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Worth making over and over.

Some love is as deep as the ocean and just as etched in your mind…even fleeting as it may be. Impacting your life so deeply, it becomes an indelible stain.

I would kill to be everything he needs.

Live in the moment until he tires of me and then lick my wounds.

Would that ruin our time together?

I don’t know the right decision.

I’m not strong enough to have my soul broken by him one day.

Scared and pathetic, I sit alone for a long time in my bedroom. Contemplating this new life I’ve anticipated for more than a year when I planned to leave Oregon and the normalness of it all.

Wanting something different, an adventure to race my heart and make me feel I wasn’t just going through the motions of life.

Nine weeks with Lachlan has given me that and more.

Is nine weeks a basis to change my whole life again?

Is it for him?

He’s thinking with his hormones and I’m planning with my heart.

I love him enough to let him go, to have the kind of life he planned before I came along.

Love is selfish.

Love is selfless.

I just have to decide which one I’m choosing.

C H A P T E R 26

Delaney

The lock turning on the backdoor alerts me to Lachlan’s arrival late that night.

I assumed he was staying at home, and my stumbling heart is ridiculously happy he’s here.

Curled up on the couch under a throw blanket, some stupid show I’m hardly watching on mute, I watch him walk through the door.

My pulse drumming out of sorts.

I’m nervous as a peacock at a hunt.

I want him here so badly, want his big body covering mine, giving me his heat and his warm breath on the back of my neck. I love the way he laughs when I try to big spoon him.

But this shit right here is too hard.

My heart is killing me.

I never should have started any affair with him, not when I know … I know my feelings are all tangled up in him and will only worsen with time.

Distance will kill me.

Well surprise, surprise, Delaney, it’s already killing you and he hasn’t even left yet.

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