"You can let me down easy, you know."
"Huh?" he stated, "What are you talking about?
"This is the part where you tell me you regret what happened between us. That you never want it to happen again. Where you can't believe you let it hap..."
He crossed to me fast and kissed me hard. After coming up for air he sat me down in the chair, bent and looked me in the eye.
"Shut up a minute," he breathed.
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Rayna meets a man she...