Chapter 138

Is that what he wants?

I smile. “I’ve loved you for a long time,” I tell him.

A month ago, I never would’ve admitted such a thing. But now, his pride. Mine. What does it matter?

Life is about love.

And love is everything.

He grins. “That’s good.”

He doesn’t give me back the words. I’m not sure he can. Aaron has been broken down

in ways that make my traumas seem tame.

That’s another part of life, I’m learning. Accepting people as they are.

And I accept him.

If this is all he can be. It’ll be enough for me.

I drag myself away on shaky legs.

I’m sore in certain places, but even that is kind of a turn-on, because it’s the things we did that make me overly sensitive. And it’s these residual feelings that will remind me

of him in the long hours to come until I see him again.

“I’ll pick you up for dinner tonight.”

My heart quickens at the thought of another night in his arms. Another ‘date.’ I nod.

“Okay.”

“Eight o’clock. Don’t be late.”

I slide back into my dress and grab my purse. I don’t bother with shoes.

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I’ll do my walk of sha me and take the elevator down a few floors.

In the whole scheme of things, what does it matter?

is giving me all new perspectives on how

to keep the

Crying won’t change things.

deep down, I wish there

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*

The hours crawl by.

and change clothes. When

waiting outside for me.

by my side to the elevator, out of the

building, he walks me all the

room.

the whole

have meetings with some

packmates,” he reminds me. “But okay. You can head up. I’ll hang out down here

be

you get stuck with

“I volunteered, Leah. It’s an

mn it, it that didn’t make me

favor, keep this on you at all times that I’m not around or when you’re

he extends to me. It’s not big. It looks like a giant pen. Only about an inch around.

like an

frown. “But I don’t have any

you. And it doesn’t contain

I hole

It’s red

to incapacitate. Someone comes at you, you slam that red side down-anywhere you can

and slide it into my

FO

pray I’ll never

with Dennis. “This round of beta testing shows promise,” he says to me. “We’ve run several thousand simulations and the model of learning with

“A statistical error of up to 5% is

lives are at stake, I’m not sure any

is as high as

that

what happens now?” I ask

more tests and begin scaling up the software. We will need to employ

is only

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