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Faith was angry with herself. She'd made a stupid, spontaneous decision yesterday and then acted on it.Who kisses a guy who just clearly stated that he didn't intend to ever have a serious relationship; or any sort of relationship really, with you?She'd been face-palming herself since she returned to her room last night. Even worse was the fact that she'd committed to spending time with him today.Even worse was the amount of time she'd spent this morning picking out an outfit and putting on her makeup because she knew she would be seeing him."Your lack of self-pride is astonishing," she muttered to herself. She'd never been this way with any man.She might not be the hottest girl in the world but she'd had her own share of love interests. She'd never been in this position before.A part of her resented Devlin for making her feel this way. The problem was the ever-screaming, super-loud part of her that liked him with such intensity.As long as that part of her refused to relent, sh
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"You're the only woman for me," Faith repeated in her head as the plane landed."You're the only woman for me," she thought as they checked out."You're the only woman for me," she remembered as Casiuss surprisingly appeared to ferry them."You're the only woman for me," she muttered as they arrived at the hotel.What the h*ll was that supposed to mean? Just a day ago, he'd insisted that there would never be anything between them.Damn him! Faith thought. It was like he was messing with her feelings on purpose. She wouldn't let that continue. If they were here to have fun, then have fun she would! She was resolute.They arrived at a hotel. "This is where we'll be staying," he informed her."That's okay." It was more than okay. It was one of those big, expensive hotels like he put her father in.Someone came immediately to take their bags from the car. Apparently, he would deliver it to their rooms. How nice it was to be rich. Meanwhile, Casiuss waved goodbye to them and drove off.Dev
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"You own the restaurant?" She rationalized. "But why would the hotel let you own their restaurant?"The woman turned back to Devlin. "What room are you staying in, sir? The usual?""No. I'm in the double suite on the third floor.""We can arrange for you to move immediately, sir. Your usual suite is ready for you.""No, that's fine. I'll stay where I am now.""Alright, sir. I'll send the maid now to clean it up."He smiled at her. "Emma, it's clean enough. Don't worry about me. I'm fine." "Alright, sir. Just call me if you need anything else." She bowed and left."Wait, are you telling me that you own this entire hotel!?""I'm not telling you anything. I haven't even said a word.""Err...are you ready to order yet?" The waiter asked nervously."We've not had time to look at the menu. Give us a few minutes and come back, okay?" Devlin ordered. He nodded and hurried away, relief apparent on his face. "So?" Faith demanded."So...I may own this hotel?" He grinned."You're kidding!""You
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Faith saw Devlin's face approaching hers as though in slow motion. Her mind raced. He'd just declared them good friends and she'd just accented to that.The last thing she needed to be doing now was kissing him. At the very last second, she turned her face. At the same time, he turned his head. His lips landed on her cheek. They both laughed, breaking the charged atmosphere."Goodnight," she said again."Goodnight," he answered.She shut the door and this time, she locked it.Devlin leaned against the locked door and took a deep breath. He ran his hand over his face. He was being stupid and he knew it.The best course of action for him would be to stay away from Faith. Instead, he was creating more and more excuses for them to stay together.He'd only been planning to spend the day with her but then the "brilliant" idea for a weekend getaway had occurred to him and he couldn't get it out of his head.The idea of spending three full days with her without her having to rush back to Gre
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"I've been waiting for you for two hours. I just woke you and you weren't here. I was just about to call the hotel staff and tell them you were missing!""Oh, sorry, just stepped out," he mumbled.He saw the moment she realized. She paused and sniffed the air. He knew exactly what she smelt; alcohol, sweat and sex.She stepped back and took him in, noting that he was still wearing the same clothes from yesterday."Oh," she murmured, "I see. Well, it's good to know you're not dead somewhere, at least."She turned around and returned to her room, closing the door gently behind her. Devlin fought the urge to run after her.Her face had completely shut down. There was no expression whatsoever in them. He didn't know what she was thinking.He finally resolved to not go after her. That would be complicating an already complicated matter. He didn't need to explain himself to her.On the other side of the door, Faith was telling herself the same thing. "He's a grown a*s man. He doesn't need t
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"Faith, we need to leave now," Devlin said, tapping her on the shoulder.She looked up and blinked as though coming out of a trance. It'd been fascinating to watch her reading. He'd actually just stay there for a few minutes watching her.He loved to see her small smiles when she read something she liked, light chuckles when she read something funny and her frowns when she didn't like something.He supposed it was like being in another world. She read fast too. She'd already gotten almost halfway through the book in the thirty minutes they'd spent there. "It's time to go?" She repeated."Yes."A frown marred her pretty face. "I'm not done with the book yet. I guess they don't sell their books.""No, it's only for reading. But don't worry, I always searched for the name online. I've ordered a copy. I'll be delivered to the hotel today."She blinked. Appreciation welled up on her face then she seemed to remember something and it disappeared in a flash. "Thank you," she said anyway and
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The dart flew through the air, spun around and around and finally landed squarely in the middle of the balloon. It popped with a loud crack.“Whoop!” Faith yelled.Casiuss clapped Devlin on the back. The stall attendant cheered as well. He grabbed the mega teddy, a purple furry thing almost as big as Devlin himself and handed it to Devlin.Devlin, in turn, handed it to Faith. “For you.” He bowed.Faith accepted the teddy, hugging it to her chest with a happy grin. “Thank you!”“You’re welcome! Come on. There are still many fun things to do.”He grabbed her hand and pulled her along. He noted with relish that she didn’t drag her hand out of his. They had three teddies now. Faith carried the medium one. Devlin held the smallest one.Meanwhile, Casiuss followed them with the largest one on his back. It was comical to see such a big, strong man carrying a bright purple teddy bear on his back.Faith turned around to look at him several times, falling over herself giggling each time. Their
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"That was exhilarating!" Faith cried as they finally walked away from the rides. On her insistence, they rode the first one again.After that, they tried almost every other ride in the place, including one that spun them around and around on the skinniest piece of metal she'd ever seen.She'd thrown up coming down from that one, after which she declared. "That. Was. Awesome!"Devlin smiled at his companion indulgently. It pleased him to know that she was having such a blast."Okay, hold up." She stopped and turned back to him. "There's one last thing I want us to try, but I don't know if you have the balls for it."She scooted close. "What is it?""You think the rides were scary? This takes it to the next level.""Tell me! Tell me!" She chanted."This will blow your mind out. After this, you won't sleep for a week.""Just tell me, g*dammit!""Introducing the Halls of Horror!" He pointed at the entrance that she'd completely missed passing by.The entrance to the Halls of Horror was sh
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"Dev! Get out!" Faith yelled. "Out! Out!" Sheila yelled too, determinedly pushing Devlin out of the room. "You shouldn't be here. Don't you know that it's a bad omen to see the bride before the wedding?"Devlin groaned. "Come on! I don't believe in superstitions. Can I just see my lovely wife?""She's not your wife yet, mister. Not until the ceremony is complete. Plus, you saw her last night. You too idiots slept in the same bed. I don't understand why you can't stay apart for even a second." She got him out the door and slammed it shut in his face."Done," she declared, dusting off her hands and returning to Faith. There was a short knock at the door and it opened again.Sheila turned around in exasperation. "Devlin, if I have to tell you one more time--"But it wasn't Devlin who stepped in. Adele squealed and rushed over to Faith, pulling her into a hug. "Oh my gosh, honey, congratulations!"Faith hugged her back. "Thank you, Adele. I'm so glad you could fly in.""Girl, I wouldn't
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Immediately Faith saw Devlin walk through the door, her heart started beating faster, her palms started sweating and her breathing became heavy.She was scared of how their encounter was going to go, but damn did he look good. He was dressed in black cargo pants and a teal green shirt. His hair was rough and uncombed. He'd obviously come straight from bed.As soon as he entered, his eyes started scanning for her until he saw her and their eyes met. He pressed his lips together and started walking towards her, not breaking eye contact.From the corner of her eyes, she saw Adele pulling a reluctant Sheila away and into the house to give them some privacy.“Faith”, Devlin said softly as soon as he reached her.“Devlin”, she replied, breaking their eye contact now that he was close. It felt uncomfortable to continue to look him in the eyes like that. Also, she was worried her heart would go into overdrive at the sight of him.It wouldn't do to show him how much he was affecting her. Not w
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As she drove to his house, she could not help but feel nervous. This would be the first time she was seeing him since they went on the road trip together and he had all but said he’d be fine with whatever direction their relationship took.She had been a friend when he desperately needed one but now that she had offered all the help she could as a friend, she could not continue with that. And even though she was the one who severed their relationship in the fist place, she loved him too much to be able to accept that.She drove like a madman, remembering ironically that she'd called Sheila that just earlier that day. She was mostly nervous and worried for him but underneath the nervousness, she was excited to see him again and maybe that had a part to play in why she drove so fast too.She arrived at his house several minutes earlier than she should have, jumped down and practically ran to the front door. She pressed on the door bell.Devlin himself answered the door, but the sight th
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After they had breakfast and washed the dishes, they moved to the living room to hang out. The next few hours were full of light-headed conversations while munching on snacks.Sheila suddenly reached out and smacked Faith on the head. "Hey! What was that for?" Faith complained.“We’re going to a pool party. You should come with us”, Sheila said with wide, innocent eyes. But her amused smile gave her away.“Yeah, you should come. It’ll be a lot of fun”, Adele added.“I don’t know. You know pool parties aren’t really my scene”, Faith replied shaking her head. “You guys go have fun.”“Not without you, babe”, Sheila said.“Yes, pleeease”, Adele added pleadingly.“I don’t know”, Faith said. She was not really feeling it.“Come on, you had a lot of fun yesterday, right?” Adele asked her.“Yeah, but that’s different. That was you two. This time it’ll be a bunch of people I don’t know”, Faith replied trying to convince them.“It’ll be a lot of fun. And you won’t be with the bunch of people,
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They got to the movies just in time to see a rom-com movie. Sheila wasn’t much for it but it was the only movie left that hadn’t started. They got some popcorn and drinks and went in to the cinema.It was always nice to spend time with Adele and Sheila, though they did not do it very often. A little into the movie, they started started talking to each other, making funny comments about the actors.One of the attendants came up to them and told them to keep quiet. Apparently, someone somewhere had complained they were disturbing everyone. They agreed to keep it down and the attendant walked back up t his post.A little later, they could not help it and just started talking again. Adele who did not seem too enthusiastic about the movie at first started shouting out her comments loud enough for the entire cinema to hear them.The attendant started for them once more but seemed to decide against it halfway and turned back. Maybe because everyone was laughing and no one was complaining. Sh
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They ate the dinner prepared by Laura and once again, they offered to wash the dishes. Laura agreed after much persuasion. Once they finished with that, they went back to the living room where they struck up a conversation.“So Faith, how did you meet Devlin," his father asked.“Devlin reapplied to College. He needed a tutor and fortunately for him, I was available--the highest scoring entrant that year.”“Tutoring him could not have been easy. He must have been a pain in the ass. Pardon my language.”Faith smiled. “Oh, don't worry about it. And yes, he we incredibly insufferable. He’s lucky I was patient because I don’t know what he would have done without me.”“Well, thank you for staying by his side even when he’s such an idiot”, he said looking at her in a way that made her feel like he also understood what was going on. Was that something every parent had, she wondered.Devlin didn’t seem to understand since he was just laughing. He looked like he was really happy to be back home
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Walking up to the house seemed to take forever. Now that they were here, Faith could not help but be nervous. She was nervous for him of course, but she was also nervous for herself, because she was going to meet the parents of the man she had been dating. Well, use to date.She had no reason to be nervous since they were not seeing each other anymore- for the moment- and she was only supporting him as a friend. Her body however had a mind if its own as she could not stop fidgeting.Eventually, they got to the door but nobody knocked. Devlin seemed to be a little scared so she fought down her own nervousness and knocked for him.A few seconds later, a man who looked exactly like Devlin, except older, opened the door. Immediately he saw who his visitor was, his eyes widened in surprise and a smile gradually formed on his face."D-Dad, its-its been a while", Devlin said looking down unable to meet his father's eyes."Devlin. What are you standing there for? Give your old man a hug."Wit
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"So, tell me what happened", Faith said immediately."Well, I got in, and we talked and...""Oh no, my bad. First, what happened at the door?""This is going to be long, isn't it?""Well, the faster you answer, the sooner it'll be over"."How about I just give you a detailed summary of what happened?""Ok, alright." "When I rang the doorbell and she opened up, she was of course surprised to see me. I couldn't tell if she was scared because she sent the letter or was just still angry. Either way, I was still to blame"."She asked me what I was doing there and I told her I just came to talk. Of course, she replied that I was a few years too late and I did not have any right to come into her home after all that time.""Then I remembered what you said about speaking from my heart and I just told her, "I know that I ran away, but I loved your daughter. And it's because I loved her so much, that I risked coming all this way and getting turned back to get a chance to make things right.""By
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Two days later, Faith and Devlin were in her car on their way to Isabella's parent's house. They chose her car since it wasn't as flashy as his and conveyed at least a bit of humility.They had left very early in the morning. He had to drive to her house first since she insisted they take her car. He arrived to meet her ready, so they started the journey without him having to enter her apartment.It had been a very silent trip. He was terrified of what he was on his way to do. She didn't quite know what to say to him, so they spent their time doing separate things, her on her phone and he pretending to be focused on driving.After a while, he stopped the car on the side of the road and said to her, "Would you please take over driving. My hands can't seem to stop shaking"."Of course", she replied at once. She then immediately came out of the vehicle and switched seats with him.Once they were back on the road, he turned to her, "I don't even know what I'll say, how to start. I just te
