You never learn the first time. You always have to get hit twice before you see it coming.” He was seeing now what he’d seen that first night at Pure. A bright shiny light he wanted to catch in his hands and hold forever. If she let him.

Rachel Gibson
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She was hurting, and he could tell. That first night at the club, she was hurting, but she wasn’t letting on about it. She was hurting inside and he wanted to help her. He wanted to take that hurt away from her and wanted to give it to her.

She had been hurt before, but not like this. Not like the way she was now. And he wanted to help her fix it, fix what was broken in her.

But she didn’t let him do that either. She made him leave her alone with all of those memories, all of those terrible things that had happened to her – it would have been so easy for him to stay there with her and make everything better. But instead, he left her alone with those memories and went out into the world.

Now he was back home again – at the place where he knew how to help her heal – and she didn’t want him there anymore. She said she didn’t want him there anymore because he could see how badly he had hurt her by leaving her alone with those awful memories and leaving out there in the world without a guide or a voice of reason to keep him from going too far or hurting himself even more than she had already been hurt.

Source: Any Man Of Mine

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