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After we made love, Connor lay on his back and I nestled against his side, my head on his chest.

“So you knew you loved me when you couldn’t pay me off,” I said.

He chuckled. “I guess so.”

“That’s sooo romantic,” I said sarcastically as I poked him in the side.

He laughed, then tickled me in retribution until I shrieked.

After I had quieted down, he said, “At least I realized it.”

“True,” I admitted.

“When did you know?”

“Earlier than that.”

“When?”

I blushed, glad that he couldn’t see it. “…on top of the ferris wheel.”

He stroked my hair. “That was an amazing day, wasn’t it?”

I nodded with my eyes closed and smiled. “The best.”

“Actually, I was probably in love with you then, too, I just didn’t want to admit it to myself.”

My eyes flew open. I lifted my head up to look at him. “What do you mean?”

He shrugged. “Just what I said: I probably knew earlier, I just didn’t want to call it that.”

“Why not?”

He looked intensely uncomfortable. “I don’t know.”

I kept staring at him until he ga