It came to him in a flash. It didn't happen over a series of moments, a day of realization. I was a flash when he was sitting at his kitchen table, reading an article on homeless dogs in Kentucky. He blinked and looked up.
"I love her."
That's all he said. That's all that needed to be said. He didn't do anything about it thought, just continued to read his article.
Because that's what Robert Goren does. He never tries to make himself happy.
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It came to her in a series of looks. Not at him, but at her coffee pot.
"I love him."
That's all she said. She just grabbed her mug and poured coffee into it, adding her cream and sugar. She didn't act. She didn't want to be vulnerable, not again. Because Alexandra Eames was not in a hurry to get her heart broken again.