Page 38 of Three Little Words

Sighed.

“Can I tell you something?” she asked.

“Yeah.” I nodded. “Of course.”

“I left because I got scared.”

I blinked. “What?”

“I got scared, Benny.”

“Of what?”

She sighed. “Of us. Of…how things could go wrong.”

“Okay.”

“I just wanted to…apologize. And tell you I regretted leaving.”

“Really?”

“Yeah.” She lowered her arm and looked at me. Her smile was almost sad. “We were good together.”

“Yeah. We really were.”

We could be good together again.

If she wanted it, anyway.

I rolled over, putting one arm over her stomach.

She sighed and patted my hand. “I can’t stay.”

“Why not?”

“I just can’t. I gotta be up early.”

“Me, too. I’ll wake you up.”

“Benny, no.”

I frowned.

But I stopped arguing.

Bryn pushed herself up. She climbed over me, found her panties in the floor. She put them back on, then headed for the door.

I just lay there and watched her leave all over again.

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