“I wish you could stay longer. I hate not seeing you every day.” “That’s partly why I came,” he says. “What do you mean?” He pauses, staring into my eyes as his teeth work over his bottom lip. “I love you, Ruby.” Of all the things I thought he might say, that hadn’t been on the list. “You do?” “Yeah, Red. I do. I should have told you before you left, but I kept telling myself we hadn’t known each other long enough for me to feel the way I do about you. But a week without you and I know I wasn’t mistaken. You stumbled into my life and I’m pretty sure I fell in love with you right then and
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