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I miss you. I need you. Nothing here is the same without you. Constance thinks we might be able to move the rosebush, but I’m not sure we should. Why uproot something that is happy right where it is? Unlike me. I’m wilting here without you. Keeping busy, of course, but you’re never far from…

I flinched. It wasn’t, though. “Give it back!” Oliver wailed. “It’s mine!” Danielle shrieked. Both Hazel and I spun, but Danielle raced right past us, Oliver on her heels. “For fuck’s sake,” Hazel muttered to the heavens, already moving. “You cannot leave your door-oomph!” Noah’s voice bellowed from the entry. Before we could make it…

“I didn’t mind-whoa.” He came up short, staring at the expanse of garden that Gran had loved. “It’s an English-style garden, naturally,” I explained as we started down the path between the trimmed hedges. Fall had set in, bringing out the oranges and golds everywhere but the greenhouse. “Naturally,” he said, taking it all in,…

“Both, like you said. Do you want to know the marketing budget, too?” he teased. I shot him a glare. “Are you really willing to forsake general fiction and be shelved in the-gasp-romance section? Because the guy I met in the bookstore last month definitely wasn’t.” He blinked, drawing back slightly. “Hmm. Hadn’t made it…

I grinned. “I never make them,” I admitted like it was a dirty little secret. She tugged her bottom lip between her teeth. Shit. I wanted to suck it free. The bottle crinkled in my hand. “Never stood a woman up for a date?” “I always say that I’ll do my best to make it,…

Stop looking at her fucking hips. “What are you afraid of?” I turned my Mets cap backward and shoved my glasses to the top of my head. “Falling off the mountain!” She pointed to the rock face. “It’s a pretty realistic fear when you think about climbing it.” “Think of it as vertical hiking.” I…

She shook her head, her lips pursing as she watched the other climbers. Her refusal stung. It shouldn’t have, and I knew it, but it still did. “Want to hike up the rest of the trail?” Her head snapped my way in surprise. “You can climb. I’m happy to watch.” “I didn’t come up here…

“Don’t let him get to you,” Howard said under his breath. “I picked her up on the side of the road,” Jameson answered in a deadpan. “She have any friends?” the rookie prodded. “We could all use a little friendly company, if you get my meaning.” “Okay, now you can let it get to you.”…

“Are you displeased?” she asked, her chest clenching at the possibility. Had she been a fool? What if the letters hadn’t meant anything to him? What if he’d already moved on but hadn’t had the heart to tell her? Every girl back at Middle Wallop had made it clear they’d be happy to take her…

Surprise flared in her eyes. “But they’d never know.” “I try to live most of my life like my mother will always find out what I’ve done.” Corner of my mouth tugged upward. “In reality, she usually does anyway, and the lectures last for hours. Hours. And as for the other parts…well, she never needs…