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and that I love you.”
    “And his response?”
    “He seemed to be okay with it. I asked about his personal life. He’s slept around but no one interesting has caught his eye.”
    “Does he want to get laid tonight?”
    “He said no.”
    “He’ll get there eventually.”
    Her eyes lit up in delight. “We saw seahorses.”
    “Really? That’s so cool.”
    “There were two of them. Their tails were wrapped around each other. It was so adorable.”
    He wrapped his finger around hers. “You know seahorses mate for life, right?”
    “ I know. That’s so amazing.”
    “Yeah.” His pinky was wrapped around hers. “Just like humans.”
    She smiled. “Do you want to be my seahorse?”
    “I assumed that I was already.”
    Her eyes watered. “That’s the sweetest thing I’ve ever heard.”
    He rubbed his nose against hers. “And my seahorse is the most beautiful one in the world. I’m just glad that you still have to carry the babies.”
    “That isn’t fair.”
    “You’ll look hot being pregnant. I could never pull that off.”
    “I’ll be fat and round.”
    “Only your stomach will be. And it will be so sexy.”
    “I don’t know about that.”
    “I do.”
    She rolled her eyes. “Let’s go to bed.”
    “What? I don’t get dinner or attention? You just want to go straight to home base?”
    “There’ re pancakes and eggs for days in the refrigerator.”
    “ Wanna go out to dinner?”
    “No. I want to stay home with you.”
    “Whatever my seahorse wants.”
    She pulled him to his feet and dragged him to the bedroom.

6
     
    Sydney pulled into the parking lot and grabbed her backpack from the backseat. When she jumped down, she saw Audrey looking at her from the sidewalk. After she smiled at her, she walked toward the science building. Sydney’s blood turned ice cold. It was just a smile but it was definitely frightening. She was grateful she couldn’t read that bitch’s mind.
    “You okay?” Henry asked as he approached her.
    “Uh, yeah.”
    “Did Audrey say something to you?”
    “She smiled at me.”
    He raised an eyebrow. “Is that a good thing?”
    “In the girl world, that’s a death sentence.”
    He shook his head. “I’ll never understand women.”
    “Neither will I.”
    Coen slid his arm around her waist and kissed her on the forehead. “Hey, seahorse.”
    “Hey.” It was a nickname that stuck. He called her that almost every day. She loved hearing it because it was the sweetest thing she ever heard. They were life partners, mates for life—at least that’s what they wanted. Henry didn’t comment on the odd nickname.
    The past month seemed to pass by like a blur. She spent almost all of her time with Coen exclusively. She felt guilty for bailing on her friends and skipping a lot of parties, but would much rather spend time with Coen, seeing him naked, th an be around a bunch of people that she felt indifferent to. Audrey hadn’t bothered her again, but after that smile, she suspected something horrible would happen.
    Coen kept his arm around her waist as he walked her to the building. Henry kept his hands in his pockets as he walked beside them. He seemed to accept Sydney’s relationship with Coen more as the days wore on. He told her he was fooling around with the same girl for a while. That had to be good news. He obviously wasn’t in love with her, but at least he was starting to picture himself with other women.
    The fire between Coen and Sydney didn’t seem to die down even though they had sex more than any normal couple should, but it increased even more. Even when she was on her period, they both had to have it. Oral sex wouldn’t suffice for either one of them. When they stopped using condoms, Coen couldn’t l ast as long as he normally did, so they spent an entire weekend doing nothing else but sex. By Monday, his threshold had increased substantially.
    The more time she spent with him, the more in love she became. She wondered how she had lived without him