“All my work feels completely irrelevant now. I’ll never know if it sold because I did a good job or because you’re too selfish to not interfere. Don’t you understand?” I ask quietly. He brings a hand up and brushes his knuckles along one side of my neck then drops his hand back to his side. “I wanted to have a place here in case this is where you end up. You love that house and I love it too. I’m not just blowing smoke when I tell you that you’re talented. You make everything feel like home. So yeah, I bought it and I’m sorry if that was crossing a line, but I didn’t do it so you could keep
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