Devin’s POV The moment Eve's voice cracked on the other end of the line, I knew that walking misdemeanor had finally done what I had been silently hoping he would do since the day Eve told me she was engaged. He had removed himself from her life in the most catastrophic way possible, and while I was genuinely sorry she was hurting, I could not pretend I was sorry he was gone. I had been in love with Eve Lovelace since we were sixteen years old. She had been crying in the school library over a history paper, looked up at me with those dark eyes, and asked if I thought anyone ever actually got what they wanted. I had no answer then. Seven years later I still had no answer, but I had built my entire life around staying close to her, and that meant swallowing every impulse that might send her running. She thought I was her gay best friend. The one man in the world who wanted nothing from her. I let her believe it because it was the only way she let her guard down, and I would rather
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