Chapter 10

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CHAPTER TEN Three months seemed endless since getting lost and winding up at Mia’s tree house. It felt like we had known each other much longer since we connected online and started to FaceTime every day, but not being with her in person was agony. More than once, we fell asleep together while talking on the phone. Exploring her ability to follow direction, testing her desire to please me, and demonstrating my capacity to protect and care for her in spite of the distance consumed me. Waiting to be with her in person sucked, but it was necessary. To say she was “afraid” was an understatement. The only time I spent with her in person, her need for privacy bordered on paranoid, and I wasn’t about to scare her off by rushing her into something she wasn’t ready for. We were both hot and bot

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