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She was the person I wanted.

Maybe she had been for a long time.

It was hard to tell because whenever I’d ever been in her presence; she was all I had seen. Like an eclipse, she was greater than the sun. There was nothing else around her, and I never thought I could actually harness all that energy. Keep it for myself.

But now I knew better. She needed someone like me. Someone who may or may not be too dumb to take on all of her.

Sure, I was smart.

Smart enough to know when I was beat.

And she had me. Claws dug in deep.

At her condo, I walked her inside and up to her door, even though she fought me the whole way.

Because, of course.

I wouldn’t want her any other way.

She unlocked her door, glancing over her shoulder at me, leaning against the jamb. “Thanks for taking me home. I could’ve found my own way.”

“I know.”

“You barged in on my solo date. Sort of ruined it.”

“Sorry.”

She clucked her tongue. “No, you’re not.”

“No, I’m not.”

“Unit four: don’t show your cards too early,” she told me with an arched brow, then stalked into her place, not glancing back or inviting me in. Simply shut the door in my face.

I rubbed at my jaw, staring at the place she’d stood, waiting.

I knew she wouldn’t backtrack. That’s not something Meredith did. She made her decision and followed through. I admired that about her. She followed her gut.

Something I was learning by being with her lately. To follow my gut.

And mine told me not to give up so easily.

Chapter 8

Meredith

Ishouldn’t have cared.

But I did.

When Claire mentioned Aiden’s second date with Celeste, and how happy she was to hear I’d helped out her poor downtrodden brother.

Of course, she didn’t call him that. Claire would never.

But Aiden was also neither poor nor downtrodden.

That guy knewexactlywas he was doing. I suspected that studious gaze of his hid deep knowledge. He just didn’t know how to let it out.

Though even that was wrong.

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