I shrugged. “I guess that guys who’d never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would,” I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late.

Ugh! Erin. You have a one-track mind." She smiled deviously. "I prefer to think of it as target-driven.

The exception is I'm not going away. Don't ask me to do that ever again.

First, this is a great job, and i'm excited about it." "Second, i'm ambitious, but i can succeed almost everywhere." "What I can't do anywhere is be with you." "Choosing to be with you isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline. It's easy. Incredibly easy.

ME: You 're a sick girl. ERIN: Guilty as charged. :)

Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence.

But why?" "You heard the pay, right? And also, to be near you." Thumbing a tear from my cheek, he added, "Mostly, to be near you.