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them, distance that couldn’t be surmounted. Just as quickly as
she’d let her guard down, the walls went up, her face an
inscrutable mask again.
“Claire?” Haley was so frustrated. In every way. Physically.
Mentally. She was going out of her mind. She sat and Claire
stood, neither of them making a move. Haley missed the
connection they’d just shared. The intimacy that Claire
couldn’t stop herself from wanting.
It felt real. God, she wanted it to be real.
Their gazes locked, and it was perhaps the most intimate
thing they’d ever done. Haley knew she was falling. So hard
and irrevocably fast.
“Haley.” The word was a torment. She ached so badly.
Claire blinked and the moment was shattered. Whatever they’d
just shared, whatever intimate current that had passed between
them with no need for words, was gone. “I’m going to go back
to my office. You need to practice.”
“I don’t.”
“Then you have something else you should be doing.”
“No.”
“A paper to write, school to work on, young person things
to be doing?”
“Young person things?” Haley laughed. “What’s that
supposed to mean?” She knew what it meant. She knew the
distance Claire was trying to put
between them. Reminding
her of who they each were and the lines that divided them.
Haley wanted to stand up and grip Claire by the shoulders.
She wanted to force her to look at her. She wanted to kiss her
senseless, to demand her secrets, to demand to be let inside the
