“THAT I LOVE YOU!”īetween any other couple it might have been a tender moment, that declaration of love. ” I could practically hear him grinning as he spoke, despite the distance that separated us. But even without Brook to tell me her secrets, I hadn’t missed the private exchanges, the looks and discreet brushes of their hands that had passed between them whenever they’d believed no one was watching.Īron’s voice squawked over the line from halfway across the country: “I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT IF I DON’T MAKE IT BACK. “What do you want?” She was shades quieter than Aron was, and far more reserved, but I knew-I could hear it in her voice-that she’d missed him.īrook hadn’t confided in me, so I didn’t know exactly what had transpired between her and Aron in the months since our return from Vannova. Static stretched between them as I stepped aside, making a place for her as she leaned forward, spreading her palms flat over the tabletop. “I’m here,” she called out to the box before she’d even reached the table.
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