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the edge of the cliff and jumped.
    Oh. My. God. This guy was insane!
    I snapped myself out of my stupor and cautiously but swiftly made my way to the rock’s edge and peered down to where he should have landed. When I looked down, I didn’t see him. I only saw the black water with its large ripples making its way to the land. I looked everywhere, but still didn’t see Ryker.
    Holy shit.
    “Ryker!” I screamed at the top of my lungs. My eyes searched the dark expanse, looking everywhere for his head to break through the surface, but I couldn’t see him.
    It was the middle of the night, the water black as the sky, and there were rocks jutting out in different directions all over the place. The thought of Ryker landing on one of them…I couldn’t even think about it. Instead, I uselessly looked around for anyone to help me, but of course no one was out here this late. I pulled out my cell phone and was met with no service.
    “Ryker? Ryker!” I called again. When I didn’t get an answer, I mentally mapped out my route. It was going to be a steep climb down.
    The slick rocks made it almost impossible to keep my footing. I continued shouting for Ryker, hoping that he would respond. I prayed nothing had happened to him as the tears poured down my cheeks. Selfishly, I knew my soul couldn’t handle another trauma.
    “Holy shit!” I yelped as I slipped on the wet surface. I was an inch from bashing my head on a sharp rock, when I reached out and steadied myself against the side of the largest boulder. Right as I was about to lose my balance again, I heard him.
    He was laughing. Oh my goodness , he was really laughing. Now that I knew he was okay, I wanted to hurt him.
    “I’m sorry, but I couldn’t resist.” Ryker chuckled and lifted his hands in surrender when he saw my death glare.
    I shifted my weight on the rock, getting ready to charge toward him and give him a piece of my mind.
    Suddenly serious, Ryker motioned for me to stop. “Just stay there. I don’t want you to get hurt trying to come down here.”
    I tossed another angry glare in his direction and shook my head. I was furious. “You didn’t think of that when I was yelling your name, scared out of my fucking mind that you were dead? When I was already climbing down these slippery as hell rocks, sliding all over the place afraid that I was going to fall to my own death!” I screamed. “I’m a big girl, Ryker I can get down on my own and find my own way out of these forsaken woods.”
    I turned, and against his repeated warnings, I quickly tried to make my way back up the rocks. I got about halfway there before my foot slipped and I fell, scraping my arms and legs on the stone’s jagged edges. I tried to reach the rock’s crevices, anything I could grasp to keep from falling any further. My efforts were futile, and I ended up landing hard, ass first, on a sharp edged rock at the bottom of the cliff.
    Ouch, that hurt!
    Maybe I’d jinxed myself earlier because everything sucked.
    A lot.
    I stiffened when Ryker touched my shoulder. I was so consumed by my thoughts that I hadn’t heard him come up behind me.
    “Gabby, I’m sorry. That was a real shit move on my part. I don’t know why I did it. I’m a fucking idiot and do stupid shit a lot,” he explained quietly.
    “The first time we really hang out and you pretend to fucking die after jumping off a cliff? How on earth would that be funny? Who even does that?” I was seething, my eyebrows raised high in annoyance.
    “You keep doing that.”
    “Keep doing what?” I snapped.
    “You keep raising your eyebrows, and your left one skyrockets into your hairline. Have I been bothering you that bad? You were doing it even before I jumped.”
    “Actually, other than you pretending that you just died…” I dramatically emphasized my words, then paused. “You haven’t bothered me at all. I was having a good time with you.”
    I looked up to see him smiling sweetly down at me, a spark of hope in