Excerpt Eight

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"I think I love you." It was so quiet a confession, nearly lost to the wind in the wake of its existence. Yet the weight of it anchored them both, made the breath in his lungs turn to cement in the same moment that her eyes met his.

She was earnestness and hollow fear, choked him as surely as a noose. He wasn't sure which would be more appropriate, tears or laughter. And when the moment turned into a small eternity and his silence had become poison, he spoke. Low, empty. Afraid.

"Why?"

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