We're getting on toward the end here! I'm thinking 7 chapters left. Those who are faithfully reviewing: you're the greatest!
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She didn't resent him. He'd had Peyton and she had struggled with jealousy then but she never resented him. Never resented the lost coffee dates, the lost dinners. The lost time. Though she certainly missed it all. She wanted him happy. She wanted him free of sleepless nights and the nightmares that came with the job. With his life. Peyton had done that for him in those months that they were together. Stella had been happy that he seemed to finally be going back to the Mac Taylor that he had been so many years ago. The job had not been his life anymore. He took time off work!
Then he came back without her.
She felt guilty for being so happy.
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