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VOLUME THREE: ENIGMAKarsyn"This isn't working for me."My heart drops as I hear the words coming out of Tucker's mouth. They aren't really computing with me though. He can't be saying what I think he's saying. "What?" I want to make sure I'm hearing him right."This." He motions between the two of us. "Isn't working for me."I will not cry. I will not cry. I will not cry. "You want more from me than I can give.""Is this because I told you how I felt? Because I told you I love you?" "Karsyn," he starts.I hold up my hand. "Don't give me the it's not you, it's me bullshit." And cue the tears. They're falling now, huge and ugly. I'm not a cute crier. Not like those girls who refuse to let people see them break down. I've spent enough of my life holding things in, running from a past that would have broken most. I refuse to hold my feelings in. Our time on earth is finite, and I had to tell Tuck when I fell."It is." He reaches out for my hand, but I snatch it away
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TuckerWhen did I become the kind of guy who sits in a police car outside his ex-girlfriend's apartment? Especially when we didn't even put a label on it and it was never meant to be more than a couple of hook-ups.My conscience blasts me for being the asshole I am. You became that guy when you decided to be a jerk and break it off with her because you couldn't handle the feelings she evoked in you. At this point I tell my conscience to shut the fuck up, even though it's completely right. If I were anyone else, I'd tell them to get over it, stop going by her apartment and move on, but I can't. Not in a skeevy way either. There's nothing nefarious in the feelings I have for Karsyn.I fucking miss her; I miss the way she made me feel, the way she took care of me, and the way she allowed me to be myself, even when the days were harder than I cared to admit. Behind me, my K-9 Major barks, letting me know I've been sitting here for too long."I hear ya, but just a few more minute
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Karsyn"He was outside my apartment again," I sigh to Kels as we sit outside the office, on our lunch break.It's a seriously gorgeous spring day. One of the first ones we've had so far this year. Bitter coldness swept through Alabama this winter, and while the cold temperatures are long gone, ice still encompasses the vestiges of my heart. In many ways, it was the coldest winter in my lifetime."When are you going to go over and talk to him? How long will you let him troll around like a creeper?" She giggles as she takes a drink of her decaf. When she was pregnant, she started drinking decaf and never went back once Ella was born.I shrug. "It's kind of flattering.""Imagine how emasculating it is for him though," she points out. "He's trying.""He should try," I insist. "He broke my heart and stepped on it with his combat boot.""But look at me." She takes a bite of her wrap. "I'm here, living the dream, even though you warned me to be careful with Nick."Jealous does
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Tucker"You're slippin'." Nick gives me a grin as he comes into the conference room at the biggest hotel we have in our small town.It's time for a meeting of the Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team, and any of us who can attend have convened here. "What do you mean, I'm slippin'?"He chuckles. "Heard through the grapevine you only sent one rose to Karsyn this week."The grapevine means Kels, and I did only send one rose. "Fuck you, she knows what it means.""Does she?" He nods to the door, where she's walking in beside one of the new EMT's working with Cutter. I don't know the asshole's name, but she's smiling and he's grinning. They laugh at something, and it's like a damn knife through my heart. She doesn't even look at me as she takes a seat next to Stella. Major, sitting at my feet, sniffs as he smells Karsyn and looks up at me. "Go on." I give him a gentle nudge.Just because she's blocking me out doesn't mean she'll block him out. For that I'm grateful, because
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KarsynI shift in the booth at The Café, waiting for Tucker to get here. After the LSERT meeting, we'd quickly decided to meet in public for our first brainstorming session. I don't know if that was more for me than him. In our previous attempt at a relationship, we'd never gone out in public together. Not because we hadn't wanted to, but because we couldn't keep our hands off each other.More than once he'd come to pick me up for dinner, and we'd ended up in bed. This is going to be a test of epic proportions. Checking my phone, I see he's got a few more minutes to get here. I was earlier than I'd expected to be. "Do you want anything while you wait?" Leigh asks as she walks by the booth."Ya know what? I'll take an order of fries and a Coke." Fries are my go-to, I'll eat them any day of the week, any way they come."Anything else?"Immediately I think about who's meeting me. "An order of cheese sticks along with a Sprite, some water and a treat for Major?"She gr
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TuckerI don't do well with days off, not anymore. They used to be filled doing mundane shit with Karsyn – her teaching me how to bake a cake, going with her to pick out a dress for a work event she had to attend, helping her wash her car. Back then I didn't realize how much I looked forward to the mundane shit. I believe I even grumbled a time or two. Funny how you don't miss what you had until it's gone.Today I would love to bake a cake with her, help her wash her car, just have her here. The loneliness is the worst. Some days it eats at me, other days I don't mind it much. Today, it threatens to drive me out of my fucking mind.Major lays on the couch with me, his head resting on my thigh. He looks up at me, a little whine escaping. He misses her too, the hole her being gone has left in our lives is big. I'm not sure I can take my company anymore, and I'm almost sure he's sick of me too. "I know, we need to go and do something."Even in the middle of my pity party, I kno
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KarsynIt's been a long day, and I can't help but be glad we're finally heading home. "See ya tomorrow." I wave to Kels. "Give those boys of yours a hug for me!"She grins saucily. "I'm giving the oldest one a huge hug."I roll my eyes, a smirk on my face as I look at her. I'm happy she's happy, but at the same time I'm slightly envious. "You know I mean the children.""Totes my bad." She gets into her SUV, waving back at me.Opening my car, I gratefully sink into the driver's seat, glad to be off my feet. When I go to throw my lunchbox and purse into the passenger seat, I see something sitting there. My heart pounds up in my throat as I see a tote bag from XOXO I've been eyeing for months there, along with the signature packaging of the owner, Tori. I've been spending enough time in there lately I would notice it anywhere.My hand shakes as I reach for the card attached to the tote bag. I don't want to get my hopes up, but it's almost like telling a man dying of thirst not
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TuckerFriday night in Laurel Springs can sometimes get a little crazy, but nothing can remove the smile from my face. I looked at the letter from Karsyn before I left the house, and it's put a spring in my step. "Tucker, come in."The blaring sound of the radio indicates dispatch wants to speak to me. Hitting the button on my shoulder, I speak quietly, hoping she can take context clues. Sabrina is new, just hired in the last few months, but damn someone needs to give her a heads up she doesn't have to scream every time she talks to us."10-4, what do you need?"It screeches again as she all but screams over the line."Cruise is requesting a dog to sniff his traffic stop. Can you respond? Ransom and Rambo are on lunch."She still hasn't learned the ten codes either, but we needed help and she was an applicant, so we'll take what we can get at this point. "Show me as responding. I'll be there ASAP once you send the address over.""Sorry." This time her voice is a lit
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