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You can't control everything. You can't control how someone feels about you. Or what makes them tick. You can only control how you react, how you act, how you think and feel.

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Maya Banks
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 20
Author
Novelist
the United States of America
Sharon Long
Feel
Feels
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Tick
Thinking
React
Control
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Someone
Everything

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She laid her head against his collarbone, and he kissed her temple. To her shock, she felt a shudder roll through his body about the same time she registered wetness against her skin. Tears. His tears. She started to turn around, but he tightened his grip. “Stay,” he said in a choked voice. “Just let me hold you, baby. Just let me hold you.
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Caelen?” “Aye, lass?” “You were right.” “What was I right about?” “Kissing. ’Tis a most wondrous thing.” She could sense his smile.
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I don't deserve your love or your shine, but I want it because with you I can feel the sun. I don't want to go back to those shadows.
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