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“You’re underestimating my weakness.” I nuzzled her neck, feeling my dick stir. “Have you looked at yourself lately?”
“Not really…”
“You’re blossoming into kryptonite. I can’t stop looking at you.”
“I’ve noticed.”
“I’ve never been good at hiding it, have I?”
“Is it just physical attraction or something more?”
“It’s definitelynot justphysical attraction, Abby.”
After a long moment of silence, she muttered, “Britney was lucky.”
I blinked, taken aback. “Because she’s dead?” I quipped, immediately regretting my sarcasm.
“No, of course not.” She squeezed my arm. “I’m sorry if that sounded insensitive.”
“I know you didn’t mean it that way. I was being a sarcastic arse.”
“I meant because you loved her so strongly. I think we all have to learn to love ourselves, so it doesn’t matter whether anyone feels as strongly about us as we do about ourselves. But finding someone who loves you that deeply is really rare and special. Of course she wasn’t lucky to have passed. I didn’t mean to imply that. But shewaslucky to have found you before she did.”
I swallowed. “I didn’t know I was capable of love until I met her. Didn’t even know what it felt like.”
“It takes a special person to bring it out in someone so resistant to it.”
I sucked in some air, anxious to change the subject. “Were you in love with that boyfriend—the one who hurt you?”
“I definitelythoughtI loved Asher. But in retrospect, I couldn’t have possibly loved someone who didn’t love me back. One-sided love is a delusion. Because how could you love someone who doesn’t return it? Him hurting me took away any love I thought I had for him, if that makes sense. It was erased.”
“Of course.”
“But you know, in the end, the breakup didn’t hurt me as much as it should’ve. It wasn’t like I couldn’t eat or anything. I would think losing your great love would nearly paralyze you.”
Boy, did I understand that. “Yeah.”
“So I don’t think he was ever the one. Which means it wasn’t that great of a loss.”
“Probably not, if you got over it fairly quickly.”
She sighed. “Lucky me. That probably means my greatest heartbreak is yet to come.”
“I hope not.” What I wanted to say was,I hope it’s not me.
She hopped off my lap. “As much as I don’t want this day to end, I think we should go upstairs.”
I stood. “I never properly showed you the upstairs, did I?”
“Lead the way.”
I took her hand as we reentered the house and headed up to tour each room. Abby would be sleeping in the bedroom Leo had stayed in all those years ago, while I took my old room for nostalgia’s sake.
We were standing in her room when she said, “Thank you for an amazing day.” Abby placed a firm kiss on my lips, and that was all it took. When she pulled back, her eyes fell to my crotch. “Are you saluting me?”
My dick was completely hard and clearly not ready to bid her adieu yet. “It’s saying goodnight.”
“Ah.”
