Before she could push further, James leaned up and kissed her softly. His lips were soft against hers, murmuring between kisses, "Let's not worry about that right now. Just enjoy being together, okay?
Kendra relaxed into his kiss, doubts swimming temporarily under the tide of the heat in his touch. She wanted to believe him. She wanted to believe in his words, that all was as he'd said. But deep inside her, she just couldn't uproot the feeling that there was more to James than he was letting on.
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He had taken off a little later that afternoon to attend to some "business," leaving Kendra to her own thoughts in her apartment. She sat on the couch scrolling through her phone aimlessly, but her mind went back to them that morning. Was she thinking too
