
The way you forced me to look at myself.” He could barely breathe. Everything has always come so easy for me, but nothing about you was easy. I don’t have a lot of practice being mad, so it took me a while to understand that the person I was really mad at was myself. “I wish I could say I realized how much I loved you as soon as you left town, but I was too busy being mad at you for bailing on me. She stood there, not saying a word, just listening. If I was so wrong about Lucy, how could I trust the way I felt about you?” ” He hunched his shoulders, and a trickle of rainwater ran down his collar. And there you were in the middle of it, this beautiful thorn in my side, making me “feel like myself again. I had the whole town lining up feeling sorry for me, and I was damned if I was going to let anybody know how miserable I was. We had everything in common, and what she did made no sense. “Lucy and I fit together so perfectly in my head. He collapsed the umbrella, took a step forward, then stopped himself. He finally had her full attention, not that she looked at all dreamy-eyed or even close to being ready to throw herself into his arms, but at least she was listening.

“When Lucy ran out on me, she broke my brain. “Only six weeks ago, you were telling me all about how Lucy broke your heart.” “That’s weird,” she said without stopping.
