He pushed out a heavy sigh. “Things change, yeah?” “Yeah, in ways I wished they didn’t.” Then she cleared her throat and sent him a big smile that panged through his chest. Because it was real and genuine and so much like the little girl he’d once known yet so different. Regret slammed him hard. She’d been like a sister to him. More than that, even. Someone who’d just gotten him the same way as he’d thought he’d gotten her. And now, they had all that fucking time lost. An ocean between them. No way to cross it or to get back to the way things had been. He didn’t know a thing about her anymore,
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