He’d let her go finally a year earlier. Moved on, but now here she was, begging for his acceptance. For the life of him, he couldn’t bring himself to give it to her yet, even though he wanted nothing more than to hold her in his arms and tell her it would all be okay. “You can’t even answer me, can you?” Jill asked. “There’s got to be an alternative,” he said. There was always an alternative where dragons were concerned. “Trust me, I’ll find it.” He was walking to the door when she called out. “Corey, I meant it when I said I still love you. I’m not trying to get between the two of you, but you need to know.” He suppressed an urge to turn and look back at her again. “I still love you, too. That’s the problem,” he said to the door, then opened it and walked out. *** He went back to his own office to clean up and get ready to leave for the day.
