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  “All of this is going to take time before you’re ready for a relationship again. You need time to figure out what you really want.”

  “I know what I really want. How long do you think it would take me?”

  “At least eighteen months,” Ian told her, and Maura’s jaw dropped.

  “You think I need a year and a half to figure out that I’m in love with you and have been for the past three years, and that I can’t imagine the rest of my life without you in it? Ian,” Maura said, “have you ever known me to be a woman who wasn’t sure about what she wanted?”

  He gave her a stubborn frown. “You’re asking if I can make a go of this with you now, and the answer has to be no.”

  After all this time, the years, the grief, and now he was deciding he had to tell her no?

  Maura straightened. Shoulders square. Chin high. Not accusing, not demanding. Not begging. “You’re going to let me walk away.”

  “Yes.”

  She swallowed her anger. Made herself calm. “When we are together, everything shines.”

  “You’ll find someone else.”

  “Of course I will. You think I can’t walk out that door right now and find someone? A dozen someones?” It should’ve sounded arrogant, but it was the truth. “I don’t want someone else. None of them will be you.”

  He tried to laugh, to make a joke. “C’mon. You’ll have your pick.”

  Maura wasn’t laughing. She moved around the table while he still sat. It gave her a little power, at least, standing over him this way. She made her face and voice cold because she wanted to be warm. “You don’t get to pick who makes you shine.”

  And then she left him in his spotless kitchen, alone.

  Also by Megan Hart

  All the Lies We Tell

  All the Secrets We Keep

  A Heart Full of Stars

  Always You

  Broken

  Castle in the Sand

  Clearwater

  Crossing the Line

  Deeper

  Dirty

  Everything Changes

  Flying

  Hold Me Close

  Hurt the One You Love

  Indecent Experiment

  Lovely Wild

  Naked

  Out of the Dark

  Passion Model

  Precious and Fragile Things

  Reawakened Passions

  Ride with the Devil

  Selfish is the Heart

  Stranger

  Stumble into Love

  Switch

  Tear You Apart

  Tempted

  The Darkest Embrace

  The Favor

  The Resurrected One: First Come the Storms

  The Resurrected Two: And Then the Infection

  The Resurrected Three: And After That…Resurrection

  Womb

  The Space Between Us

  Unforgivable

  Vanilla

  About the Author

  I was born and then I lived awhile. Then I did some stuff and other things. Now, I mostly write books. Some of them use a lot of bad words, but most of the other words are okay.

  I can’t live without music, the internet, or the ocean, but I have kicked the Coke Zero habit. I can’t stand the feeling of corduroy or velvet, and modern art leaves me cold. I write a little bit of everything from horror to romance, and I don’t answer to the name “Meg.”

  If you liked this book, please tell everyone you love to buy it. If you hated it, please tell everyone you hate to buy it.

  Find me here!

  www.meganhart.com

  readinbed@gmail.com