“But you don’t love me now?”
“I hardly know you, but I don’t want to stop being with you. If you weren’t pregnant, I’d be starting to think that maybe we had something here. Getting pregnant was like unintentionally pressing the fast-forward button. We just have to find where we were before.”
“I feel the same way,” Cooper smiled. The fragile peace was back.
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Jen examined Red’s card with a critical eye. “It’s a sign. You have to call him,” she said.
Pulling back the strap of Jen’s cotton nightshirt and kissing her shoulder, Adam said, “Eunice was telling me I should meet him. There’s some king of cosmic thing going on these days, I swear. From the moment I met you, I felt like I needed to be with you. And now this. It’s not an accident. Don’t you feel that way?”
Jen flinched and pulled away.
“What’s wrong? Did I do something?” Adam asked.
“No. It’s me. I thought nothing could make me ever leave you, but…”
“But what?”
“Please, Adam. This is hard for me. I haven’t really been myself for the past few days because I’ve been feeling really guilty…I’ve been thinking about how to tell you this. I was offered a job at the White House a few days ago. The chief of staff called me personally.”
Adam was stunned. That’s what I get for falling in love “What? So you’re leaving? I don’t get it, Jen. Did I totally misread everything? I thought we had something here.”
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