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Then she hung her head.
I touched her chin and lifted her gaze to mine. “Why did you come here? To this exact spot?”
“I needed to get away but I didn’t want to go too far.”
“From me,” I said. “The same reason I’m here. I didn’t want to go too far from you. I didn’t want to hurt you.”
“I didn’t want to hurt you either, Joe. But I’ve been…”
“What? Because of the mornings?”
Anna’s cheeks blushed. “You knew.”
“Of course I knew. You’re everything to me, Anna. I can feel it. I’m not mad. I don’t blame you. The whole thing just…”
“I punched Herbert in the jaw.”
My eyes went wide. “Really?”
Anna nodded. “And it felt really good to do. I thought of you when it happened. I channeled you. I became violent, Joe.”
“That’s not a bad thing. Sometimes.”
“That’s not who I am.”
“What if it is, baby? What if this is who we are? And we just were holding it in? Fighting it off? Pretending?”
“So you were pretending? All the way to becoming a pro hockey player?”
“No, not that, Anna. Our dreams were meant to be.”
“Which means us not together was meant to be.”
“Anna. We’re talking crazy.”
“Oh, so now I’m crazy?”
Anna pushed away from me.
She stepped back.
More than one step.
“Are you going to put words in my mouth?” I asked.
“You just said the word.Crazy.”
“I didn’t say you were crazy. Even though right now…”
“Oh, great. That’s great, Joe. I’m losing everything in my life. And I’m crazy?”
“What are you losing?”
“Seriously? My reputation is shattered. I can’t even imagine what Ellen and her family and the hockey team thinks of me. Not to mention word spreading across the league. All over social media. Yeah, sure, that’s helpful for me.Come see the psychologist! She might fuck you!”
I laughed.
“That’s not funny!” Anna yelled. She reached down, picked up sand and threw it. The wind sent most of it back at her. “Nothing is funny!”
