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seem to get close enough to him. They were both in battle, soft and rough, fast and slow. Their kiss was so gentle, yet their hands roamed so impatiently.
    She had no idea how long they were lost in each other. All she knew was she never wanted it to end. But wanting and knowing it would were two different things. When he finally pulled away, she was left breathless and longing for more. She rested her cheek on his chest as he kept her close to him.
    “You’re going home tomorrow.” His voice rumbled through his chest.
    “Yes.”
    “So am I. Then I’m off to film a movie.”
    “I have a manuscript I need to finish.”
    “We’ll find a way to make this work.”
    She pulled away and looked up at him. “I’m not asking anything of you.”
    “You aren’t asking; I’m giving. I’ll have Beau talk to Hannah, and they’ll make sure we have time to at least talk on the phone daily. Maybe we can set up those video chats.” He tipped her chin up so she was looking at him. “And I promise, the first chance we get, we are spending time together. I don’t care what it takes. I will not miss out on time with you.”
    “Promise.”
    “My word is my promise.”
    “Maybe you should seal that with a kiss.”
    He smiled. “I will completely seal it with a kiss.”
     

 
    Mid-July 2015
     
    The next three months became routine for Lissa. Wake up, write, eat, at some point during the day or evening talk to Will and do just enough to make sure Hannah wasn’t worrying about her. Frantically, she focused on her writing. There was an unknown force driving her from within to write her stories, more so than usual. She wasn’t getting enough sleep or eating properly, but she was writing. And, most importantly, not wasting her day dreaming of Will.
    The first couple of weeks after she was back home, he took up every waking hour. She was useless. She’d spend hours searching for new information on him on the internet, waiting by the computer for his video call to come in. A lovesick teenager had nothing on her. Hell, she even put her weak mother to shame with her obsession. She’d been thinking of her a lot since she’d last seen Will, not liking the similarities in traits she was seeing in herself and her mother. All of her memories were of her mother losing herself in her father’s shadow.
    Then one morning, she woke up and said enough. She’d lost the previous two weeks of writing and was behind her schedule. This was her business; she couldn’t ignore it any longer. With renewed determination, she buckled down and worked harder than before to catch up and actually get ahead. As an added benefit, she was able to feel like she was contributing again, and not just thinking of Will twenty-four hours a day.
    The nights were still the hardest, though, right before she fell asleep, or when she woke up. He was the last and first thing on her mind every single day. That was why she didn’t go to bed until she was ready to drop, sometimes crashing on the couch in her office, or even at her desk. If she was too exhausted to think of him, she could fall asleep. But it was also why she was usually up so early. She’d wake up for some reason and he’d be right there, and then there was no way she’d be able to fall back asleep. Her brain would remember their last conversation, or what she wanted to tell him the next time they talked, or even what she hoped it would be like the next time they were together, in person.
    If their schedules permitted, there were times they’d talk for hours, about everything and anything. They built their relationship on words. Her world was closing in on her, and she spent the majority of her time in her office, writing, talking to Will, and sometimes working out with Hannah. She rarely went anywhere and if she didn’t have to, she wasn’t seeking out her friends. She knew it wasn’t any better than before when she was focused on him completely, but at least she was tending to her business. At