BRANDON
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I stared at my phone long after the call ended, her voice still echoing in my ears.
“I just needed a little space.”
I wanted to ask if it was from me but I didn’t want to push her any more than I already did.
I should have known something more was coming after she let herself kiss me. It wasn’t just a slip. She wanted me. I could feel it at that moment. I felt it in the way she gripped my shirt like she didn’t want to let me go. But after the kiss, everything I hoped for slipped away again. I’d foolishly thought that was the beginning of something again.
Instead, she was currently in San Diego.
If only she could just let her inhibitions go.
My chest was tight with the kind of frustration I couldn’t put into words. I’d told her to take all the time she needed but I did
