Protecting You

<p>One moment of hesitation and I lost Maggie forever.</p><p><br></p><p>Since then we've spent the last fifteen years in this small town circling each other and pretending neither remembers <strong>how right it felt </strong>when we were best friends.</p><p>Now she's a single mom and she doesn't need a broody grumpy cop like me complicating her life. No matter how many times her heated gaze scorches my skin I can never have her in the way I want.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Completely.</strong></p><p>So I push her away-but it's for her own good.</p><p><br></p><p>Because if she knew the truth of what I did she wouldn't just have hurt feelings--she would truly hate me.</p><p><br></p><p>She has a guarded heart and it's all my fault.</p><p>But I don't have a heart at all. <strong>I gave it to Maggie O'Brien a long time ago</strong>.</p><p><br></p>