Jeremiah hadn’t meant to upset Shannon. But he wasn’t happy with how things were going between them. Texting a few times a day felt like something he did with a woman he’d just met, not one he’d been dating for a few months, had shared so many intimate stories with. Not someone he’d kissed so passionately and had learned so much about. He hadn’t meant to act like her therapist, and he didn’t feel like he had. Doesn’t matter what you think, he told himself. It mattered how Shannon had interpreted it, but Jeremiah couldn’t control that. Doesn’t matter what you thinkThey sat on the beach for several more minutes in silence, and then he got up and said, “I think I’ll go.” “Already?” Shannon sounded one breath away from crying, and Jeremiah hated that. He didn’t want to cause her any more pa

