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Оглавление“How is it that we went all these years without talking, Jude?”
“You have no idea how many times I’ve asked myself that same question,” he said.
“Why didn’t you...try?” she said.
“I could ask you the same thing.”
The air stilled. Their words threatened to conjure the hurts of the past, and they tried to crowd between them.
“When the man who had asked you to give up everything and elope with him—to spend the rest of your life with him—shows up three months later engaged to someone else, it makes it a little hard to be the first one to reach out.”
He nodded. “Fair enough. That’s why I came to see you first thing when I got into town.”
“This was probably a bad idea.” She started to push to a sitting position, but with a strong arm, Jude pulled her down next to him.
“No, it’s not.”
And he kissed her.
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