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again?”
    “No.” He looked away. “I don’t want to make you feel bad about your choice. I know you’re with Zayden and I know he’s your future. I wouldn’t want to do anything to take that happiness away from you.” He was so sweet. I slid my hand up his thigh and my lips found their way to his but it startled him and he backed away quickly. “Adele! What are you doing?!”
    “Isn’t this what you wanted?”
    “Haven’t you been listening at all?” He sprung to his feet and his frustration was just hard for me to understand. “We’ve had our time, remember? This can’t be anymore.”
    “Ryon, I know you want—”
    “Yes, I do! I think about it all the time! That’s when everything went wrong! That’s when I couldn’t stand to watch you grow distant and I regret our last time together!”
    “You regret it?”
    “Only because I didn’t make it special in the way that I would have hoped for it being my last time with you. It was just before you left and you wanted it quick because you had to go. I didn’t get the chance to say good-bye properly and you didn’t even give me that when you got back.”
    He was right, wasn’t he? I stepped in closer to him and gently touched his chest with my fingertips. “Because I don’t want you to say good-bye.”
    “You don’t know how hard I want that to be true but we’ll have to sometime.”
    “Not now.” My hand slid up his chest to his neck and I cuffed the back of it, lightly pulling his head down to me so he would listen and feel what I felt. “Not yet. Not before you show me.”
    “Show you what?”
    “How you would have done it.”
    He was looking into my eyes deeply and I thought he was going to let it happen but I was greeted with a cold rejection. “Adele, we can’t. You don’t know what you’re asking of me.”
    “I’m asking you to love me.”
    He turned away. “Don’t do this. What would Zayden think if he knew what you were offering me?”
    “Don’t worry about what Zayden thinks. He knows he’s going to get me if and when everything works out with his father, just like you do but that doesn’t mean I’m not free to make my own choices until then and I’m choosing this, right now. Ryon—” I hesitated my next words while I looked at the tenseness in his back but they still came out clear and without a doubt. “I love you. I really do.”
    There was a long pause before he even moved. I didn’t want to say anything until he did and I kept my eyes on him as he slowly turned just his head to the side like he was going to look at me but never did. “You’re too late. There’s nothing I can give you now to satisfy your insatiable need to keep me around. It’s pointless.”
    “I won’t make it pointless. I said I still wanted you a part of my life and I meant it.”
    “Just as friends but that life is over for me now. I can’t even have that.”
    “Ryon, look at me.” He paused but eventually gave in to my demand and turned his body so he could see straight into my eyes. “Don’t make me take this from you. I want what I want and I want it now.”
    A slow smile started to appear on his face and he never strayed his eyes from mine. “You’ve always been so persistent and I’ve always loved it but I don’t think you’re thinking clearly.”
    “I just want you to be you again. Fun and a pleasant company, not so distant like you’re making yourself.”
    “That would be doable without this but I’ve got to tell you, it won’t be easy. The closer we get there, the worse it gets and we’re not even a full days out yet.”
    “I know but we can get through it. If it has to be together then fine. It will be.”
    “Zayden won’t share you and especially not in the way you were just hoping for.”
    “But he’ll let me make my choices. He knows I care about you and there’s nothing he can do about that. So, will you at least come back with me? Nothing is out here to get us.”
    He took a step closer and touched