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I tucked Belle in for the night. She'd caught the flu somehow and it had dragged her down.

I wanted to take her to the hospital but she was being such a baby so Roman somehow convinced me to leave her here and call the doctor.

Belle was responding to treatments but she was still Ill.

“If you keep checking up on her like that, she'll never actually sleep.”

Roman's voice startled me.

“I just went to tuck her in to actually get some sleep.”

He nodded. And then the awkward silence that I had been avoiding for days settled in again.

Once he got out of the hospital and came back home, I avoided him because I wasn't ready to have that conversation I knew he wanted to have.

First off, I was afraid of what I'd said. I was afraid that I actually meant it. I know I did but I didn't want to admit it to him.

Second of all, I was afraid he was going to say it back. Roman wasn't the kind of man that understood what love meant.

“I’ll get some sleep now.”

As I walked away, he did the one thing I
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