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Sheriff," Cali said as he closed the door behind him.
    Jenson giggled, but Lila was mortified.
    "Okay, Ms. Crofton." Cali headed into the family room. "Spill."
    Jenson and Lila followed her in and sat on the couch.
    "Was the sex as good as you remembered?" Cali picked up the blankets Lila and Trevor had abandoned the night before, then threw them over the chair.
    "Cali!" Jenson said. "Lila, you don't have to answer that."
    "The hell she does." Cali squeezed in between them. "I want all the details."
    Lila's cheeks were hot, as memories of the night before flashed before her. After they'd made love on the floor, he'd carried her up to her bed and held her. They'd drift off to sleep for an hour or so, but then one of them sought out the other's lips. His scent lingered on her skin.
    "Well?" Cali said.
    "The sex was better than I remembered." Lila covered her face with her hands. "I almost couldn't keep up with him." Age had done a few things for Trevor; one of them was to increase his stamina. The twenty-eight-year-old man could definitely outlast the twenty-two-year-old boy she'd left behind.
    "You lucky bitch." Cali laughed.
    "Cali? You don't even like Trevor," Jenson said.
    "I never said I didn't like him. I didn't like some of the things he did to Lila.
    When he got Mary Grace pregnant, I thought he was a real pig."
    Lila felt guilty, knowing the truth about Jeremy and not being able to share it with her best friends. It was Trevor's secret, and he'd confided in her. She would never violate that trust.
    "But," Cali said, "the fact remains that the sheriff is hot. I remember the stories Lila used to tell when we were younger. If the man was that good at age twenty, I can only imagine what he's like now."
    "Lucky bitch." Jenson shook her head as Lila and Cali laughed at her.
    "Are you together?" Cali asked. "Now you can stay in Steeple."
    "That's great news." Jenson smiled.
    "Um, wait," Lila said. "We haven't discussed that."
    "You just spent the night having mind-blowing sex with the man. What do you mean, you didn't discuss it?" Cali said. "I saw the way he looked at you, before he left.
    He's still in love with you."
    "You still love him. Don't you?" Jenson looked at Lila. "I don't think you ever stopped."
    Lila couldn't fight it any longer. Not after what she and Trevor had shared the night before. All those years she'd spent believing she'd never have another chance with him weighed heavily on her.
    "Lila?" Cali said. "Do you want to be with Trevor?"
    "I've always wanted to be with Trevor, but we're different people now. And, to be honest, we never had a solid relationship. We were on again, off again for so long."
    As much as she wanted to lose herself in the fantasy, she had to face reality.
    Trevor was her first and only love. When it hadn't worked out with him, she had shut down and never allowed herself to feel. She hadn't felt anything in years, but in a matter of days, he'd managed to unleash emotions she'd buried deep inside herself.
    Maybe it was too fast.
    "You were finding your way before Mary Grace got pregnant," Jenson said. "You told me how much you loved him. You said you felt like the two of you finally realized you were meant to be."
    Lila remembered how good things were going before Mary Grace showed up.
    Trevor had just graduated college, and they were talking about moving in together.
    They were making plans that were supposed to last a lifetime.
    "Maybe I was too young to know what love really meant."
    "Don't over-think this," Cali said. "I can already see your wheels spinning."
    "I'm not." Lila stood up and paced the room. "Okay, maybe I am."
    "Why?" Jenson said.
    "What if we are nothing more than high school sweethearts? He was my first everything. It was explosive and fun and all the things it should have been. I don't know if we would have made it, Mary Grace or not."
    "She's over-thinking it." Jenson threw her hands in the air. "One of us needs to find love, and you're the closest to it at the