By Request Collection April-June 2016. Оливия Гейтс

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      His face softened just a little. ‘So you weren’t just after sex the other day?’

      This was what she dreaded. ‘What do you think, Finn? Did it feel like that to you?’ She’d laid herself open, exposed her soft underbelly of caring, and he could mortally wound her, even worse than he had after she’d given herself to him.

      He lifted his hand and stroked the hair out of her eyes. ‘No.’ He sighed. ‘Though God knows why you bother. What I felt the other day scared the hell out of me, Evie. And that’s not all I’m scared of. I’m scared I’m not the man you think I am.’

      ‘Well, seeing that I don’t want to be without you, Finn, we’ll just have to take that chance. Whatever happens, I’m here for you. And always will be.’

      He shook his head. Couldn’t accept that. ‘I might not just be an emotional cripple, Evie. I could be in a wheelchair.’

      She leaned towards him. ‘Or it could be the answer to all your medical problems. You could get full control back. You have to take that chance.’

      ‘I don’t think it’s an option.’ He sighed. ‘But I’ll think about it.’ An air of finality.

      She had to be satisfied with that. It was better than they’d had before today.