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He looked at her then. “You want this, but…”
She shook her head. “There’s no but. I want this.”
One side of his mouth lifted, a smile wanting to form, but still unsure. “There’s a lot to ‘this’, ya know?” He pointed between the two of them. “I have to go back to New York. I want to play baseball. But I want us to have a chance too. My life, my world there is planets apart from this one, Bay. I don’t know if it’s fair to you to pull you into that.”
“I understand. But we won’t know unless we try, right?”
He looked at Casey in the next room then back to her. “I don’t want you or Casey to get hurt.”
She nodded, her heart surging with hope that maybe, just maybe, he wanted this too. Really wanted it. “I don’t want that either.” She took a step towards him. “But more than anything, I don’t want to go through life wondering if we could have made it work.”
He took the two steps that closed the gap between them. Close enough now to look up into his eyes, at the moment more blue than grey, she put her hands on his chest as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
“I can’t imagine my life now without you in it. You’ve ruined me, MacIntire.”
His chest rumbled beneath her hands from his laughter. “Well, we can’t have that, can we?”
He covered her mouth with his own, whisking her away to heaven right there in her own little kitchen. Her head still floated with doubts, but her heart, overwhelmed with love for Drew, fought back. They could make it work. Besides, it was too late to turn back now. She’d fallen for him, her head way far over her heels.
