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He might be packing up to move back to Idaho. He would surely have heard about the job at Barrier Mountain by now. What had they ever had together that could make her believe in this kind of a future? Flowers and a veil and the promise of undying love… No. They hadn’t been heading in that direction at all. They’d said nothing to each other about anything like that.

“But we never actually ended it,” he repeated now.

“No, we didn’t.”

“And if you hadn’t gotten pregnant, what would have happened? Were you planning to end it, before that happened?”

“Not at that point, I—”

“Not at that point?”

“We met at a bar in a resort town, Mac. In that situation, you’re not looking for something long-term, and you kind of assume the other person isn’t, either.”

“Right.” After a moment, he added quietly, “Are you really that cynical and hard-edged? You were that ready to dump the whole thing the moment it threatened to go deeper?”

“No! I was…really enjoying it, if you want the truth. Every bit of it.”

Scaring myself a little bit, wondering once or twice if I was being played.

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