19 Pitt I’d never hated seeing the sunrise until that morning. The day had come that I had to leave the island and get back to the ranch. And Kaylee hadn’t changed her mind about a thing. I knew that a week wasn’t the lengthiest amount of time to be apart, but it wasn’t sitting well with me at all. I’d woken up with a knot in my throat. A damn knot! I’d never cried over any girl in my life, but there I was, waking up with a knot in my throat and tears burning the backs of my eyes. It seemed crazy. Especially since she would be coming to see me in a matter of seven days. Deep down inside, something whispered that there was a chance she wouldn’t come. Something said to me that what I wanted could never be. And that was killing me. I stood on the deck, watching the last island sunrise I

