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core reason behind that devotion. You have to hate me sometimes, don’t you?”
    He fed her a grape. “You are a complete pain in my ass, and sometimes I want to put a clamp on that mouth of yours.” He smiled when her face crumpled with his honesty. “But I know what you come from.” He put his hand under her shirt to touch the soft skin of her belly. “I know how your father basically abandoned you. I know how you lost your mother before her time, and your aunt. I know how heartless thugs abused your beautiful body.” Her face scrunched and she was instantly in tears with only the mention of her past.
    “I know how you had to fight against your fears to seduce Vince.” He pressed his hand against her stomach as she sucked in stuttered breaths to calm her tears. “I know how you fell in love with him, and became whole again. I know how hard it was for you to lose him and I know how you struggled with your guilt when you found another man to love.” He pulled her shirt back down and brought his hand to her face to push away her tears.
    “I know you, Cori. Nothing you ever do will change that. So, you go ahead and kick, scream, and bite if you have to. You have never and will never succeed in pushing me away. I’m leaving today at noon. I expect you to be the last face I see before those doors close on me.” He tucked her hair and she nodded.
    She reached around him and latched on to him with a vice grip hug. She mumbled into his chest something hardly audible. “I love you too,” he said gripping her right back. “I have some good news if you’re ready to be cheered up.”
    She pulled away and smiled. “I am cheered up, dummy,” she said wiping away her tears.
    “Oh, well, here’s the cherry on top. I asked Danato about your BBQ idea.” She paused with the same eager hopeful enthusiasm he had shown Danato. “He gave the go ahead.”
    She gasped and hugged him again, as she planted kisses all over his face and neck. He laughed wondering if he should be insulted that his soliloquy of love hadn’t provoked as much excitement as Danato’s permission to have a party.
    The final kiss that prompted her to straddle him, however, seemed to be a response to his previous declarations. Though he had chosen a secluded area for the picnic, he did a double check to make sure no one was stationed in view above them from the roof. Once he was sure they weren’t to be interrupted or peeped on, he let her have her way with him. With such attentions, Ethan was sure that he would have nothing left for Leona even if she did try to force herself on him.
    When their outdoor romp was complete, she walked him back inside for a proper clothed send off. He wrapped his arm around her and kissed her forehead as they walked down the hall to the docs. “You are going to spoil me, Cori. What am I to do with all this energy when you aren’t giving me so much goodbye sex?”
    She smiled. “There’s always hello sex, make-up sex, and bored sex.”
    He smiled. “Do me a favor.”
    “Hmm.”
    “Focus on your work the next few days. I know your brain. I know you’ll fret about me and what’s-her-butt if you don’t. There’s nothing I can say to make you not, but try, for me.”
    Cori inhaled deeply. “For you, I guess I will bury my hands in dirt.”
    The doc manager was already checking the clock when they strolled in. He had already given him his duffel bag. He was just waiting for Ethan—impatiently. They were right on time, but the five minutes before they arrived, he was frantic that his shipment of empty boxes would be late.
    He gave Cori a long sensuous kiss that made the doc manager, “ahem,” Ethan mouthed, “ I love you ,” as he backed away. Cori mouthed it back to him. He pointed at her feet and then to his eyes. He still wanted her to be his last sight as the truck closed.
    He was practically shoved into the truck by the doc manager, which he chose to ignore since he didn’t want to interrupt his longing