the last month i 'd had been able to relax my personal security system , had stopped doing figurative sweeps of the world around me with floodlights . but now i felt not in danger exactly , just at risk . of ... something . falling for devin . losing control of my life when i had finally just achieved some . my phone buzzed in my hand . figuring it was cat , i was about to turn it completely off when i realized it was
devin

his eyes would delve into hers while his hands tenderly brushed the red curls from the side of her face . they 'd kiss , and their lips would cling , then kiss again , slowly , lazily , savoring each other . each morning , when erin woke , it was the ending . each night , when she climbed beneath the sheets , was the
beginning

`` oh no ! '' `` for five million dollars . a few days before his death , he had the hospice nurse leave for a bit so he could talk to the jerk in private . my grandfather and i talked for years about turning the land into a nature preserve . they led him to believe that that 's what they were going to do with the

land