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Оглавление“Go home, Daron.”
She stood there in the rain, looking at him with dark eyes. “When it stops raining, I’ll fix the roof.”
“I’m not going anywhere. You have a sick little girl in there. Let me do this.”
She put her fists on her hips. “If you’re going up, so am I.”
As she went for the ladder, he watched her, then averted his eyes, because looking too long just didn’t seem right.
He’d gotten through the last few years by thinking of her as his friend’s wife. But she wasn’t anymore. He remembered Andy, how they’d talked about him being a dad. But he never did get to be a father…
“Stop, Daron,” she said as if reading his mind. “Stop thinking about it or you’ll never move past that day, the guilt. Let’s make a deal. We’ll be friends, the kind that help each other out because that’s what friends do. Not because they feel guilty.”
Friends. Yeah, they could be friends.
Who was he kidding? He wanted a lot more from Emma than friendship.
