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on a daily
basis back home.
    They walked along the stone path which wasn’t there
before she left. A melancholy feeling washed over her. Her parents were gone,
and nothing of her childhood home looked the same.
    “The old saying, you can never go home again, it must be
true,” she said in a soft voice, breaking the silence between them.
    Blade stopped walking and turned to face her. He set her
suitcase down beside him. “What do you mean? You’re here now, and if I had my
way, you’d stay here forever.”
    “You’re right, but nothing looks familiar to me. It
doesn’t feel the same.” What had she been expecting?  She should have known
things would be different, but in her mind’s eye, she saw the ranch as it
always was when she was younger. The reality of the situation with all the changes
overwhelmed her.
    “Why did you leave?” he asked, startling her out of her
thoughts.
    She was at a loss for words. It was one question she
hoped she would never have to answer, especially to him. Should she tell him
how much he hurt her in the past?  Deep in thought, she bit her lip, nearly
drawing blood.  What should she say?
    “Well – “ he prompted her for an answer. He wasn’t
letting her off the hook. He never did.
    She cleared her throat. “I think we both know why I left.
There’s no need for me to elaborate.” Why was it so hard for her to tell him
the truth?
    “No, you’re wrong. I don’t know why you felt the need to
leave the only home you ever knew. Please tell me? Help me to understand why
you left.”
    He was going to make her tell him. She felt trapped. She
breathed in deeply before she spoke.  “Do you remember the day in the barn when
you yelled at me?”
    “Yes.” He winced and she knew he remembered the day as
clearly as she did. The day played over and over in her head since the moment
it happened. “Why did you have to bring it up?” He sounded as if he regretted
his actions in the past, but did he really?
    “Because your rejection and your words cut deeper than
you will ever know.” She turned and looked away from him so he wouldn’t see the
tears now running down her cheeks.
    “Look at me,” he demanded as he took her by the shoulders
and forced her to turn around and face him. “Do you think I purposely set out
to hurt you?”
    “I don’t know, you tell me. If so, you did one hell of a
damn job of it.”  She studied the expression on his face; searching for clues
that would tell her if he was being honest with her or not at the moment, but
found none.
    “Why don’t I just show you what I wanted to do to you
back then, but could not?”
    “What do you mean?”
    Her words were cut off as his lips came down hard and
claimed hers. Every nerve in her body came to life and all time and space seemed
to come to a standstill. It was just her and Blade.  Was she dreaming? No, this
was real and she was fully awake. This should not be happening, her mind
was shouting through the foggy state she was in, but it was. She knew she
should stop it, but she lingered in the sensations coursing through her veins.
She was like a drug addict. The longer the kiss lasted, the more of Blade she
craved. As her senses took over her actions once again, she pushed and fought
free from him.
    “Why in the hell did you kiss me?” she demanded. She felt
anger rare up from within her, but it wasn’t entirely at him. She was upset
with herself. She wasn’t quite sure why. All she knew was she felt like lashing
out at someone. It might as well be Blade.
    “Because I wanted to. Don’t bother telling me you didn’t
want me to kiss you because I won’t believe you. You wanted it just as much as
I did. I felt how your body responded as I held you in my arms and kissed you.”
    “You’re so full of yourself and so arrogant,” she
shouted, stomping the ground in frustration.
    “Why can’t you just admit you feel the same way I do?” he
challenged.
    “It would be a lie. I hate you. Besides, all you