ALICEI ignored Mom’s calls for the tenth time in a row and switched my phone off. I kept telling myself that it could be an emergency, but I was guessing that she probably saw something on the news about Theo and me getting married, which was why she was so eager to talk to me. I was still upset about how insensitive she had been when I wanted Rory to spend some time with me, and I didn’t feel ready to go back to normal, even though I missed my brother. It was hell, to be honest, but I’d deal with all that when I returned to the US.For now, I wanted to make the most of these precious moments with Theo. Honestly? It was like I was falling in love with him more and more every day. We’d had such a short amount of time to get to know each other that it was almost like I’d fallen in love with the general idea of him. Now, the little things were coming into play. Maybe this was where so many relationships failed, but I understood Theo. It was really the little things, like how I loved
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