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“Baby, why would I lie about your birthday present? You know I’ve deemed it the most important holiday.”

“I love you. If you want to hang up the pictures you can…but can you do it shirtless?”
“That’s funny, I was going to make the same request of you.”

“Will fixes my strap on my helmet and I chuckle. “Will, you know I can do the helmet myself, right?” Will stills. He knows I know how to do it, but I also know that he likes doing it. He lets out a sigh. “Damn it, woman. Don’t take this away from me. If you want to hang the pictures, then okay, I’ll watch because I know you’re capable. But I do your helmet. Always.”

“Form? What form?” I swear if all of this could have been avoided by a fucking form…

“Callie wants control but she also wants to be wanted and let go when she feels comfortable. She wants to be desired and loved but also come off as strong and independent. I don’t like to think about her past, but I can confidently say that no one else understands this about her.”

“Callie, I would have loved to have spent today with you, but”—Will reaches into his sweats pocket then holds up one of his cards from his wallet—“if you don’t take my card and spend a shit ton of money on yourself today, then we’re going to have a problem.”

“Hey, what do you know, it’s locked. See I remember⁠—” “I locked it last night, Blaze. Nice try.”

“I want to sleep in so late that it’s embarrassing to talk about.”

“It makes me happy to know she feels safe here.”

“Learning that the people you thought you knew struggled so heavily and you had no idea—it’s hard to move past.”