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Something had changed between them; an almost imperceptible shift and he fell for her all over again, though part of him knew he'd really never stopped falling.
Hope flourished, breathing life into dreams he'd thought long dead and he dangerously wallowed in them, savoring the bittersweet agony of this courtship as he tried desperately to keep her near.
He smiled, marveling how easily she filled his heart, his soul; her presence acted as a medicinal balm, soothing the pain he'd carried since that rainy day he'd helplessly watched her walk away.