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Episode 562: She Drives Me Crazy

Ryley thought he would feel better once he stopped staring at her photograph and saw her in the flesh. But she barely let his arms wrap around her and his lips touch hers before she pulled away from him.

"What are you doing here?" His wife, asked, her beautiful blue eyes clearly torn between their belief that they should run away from him, and their desire to look him over as intently as he looked her over.

Adria moved her books up in front of her chest, holding them there like a shield.

Ryley managed to smile. Her pulling away had hurt, but the eyes and the shield gave him hope. She still wanted him, didn’t trust herself to look at him, or stand there without some physical barrier between them.

"I wanted to give you the divorce papers in person," he said.

"Oh."

He hated when she looked wounded, but in this case, it thrilled him. He knew she didn’t want to end their marriage any more than he did. He grinned as he tore the papers in three.

"What are you doing?" Addie shook her head at him. "I had those drawn up for your sake, so you could feel free to move on and not wait." A sob ripped into her voice and clouded her eyes. "You shouldn’t wait. Who knows how long it will take me to become the kind of accomplished woman you should be married to."

Ryley took her face in his hands. "You’re already that person. Come away with me, Ad. We can go anywhere. Let’s just go. Together."

"I can’t. I can’t do that to you. I need to get to class. I need to be better."

"You’re perfect," he snapped, but softened, letting frustration lead him wasn’t going to help anything. "Okay, fine, go to class, if you think that’s going to make you feel better. The semester’s probably a day or two from over, right? So then we’ll have the whole summer, and we’ll-"

"I’ll be in class. I’m going to summer school and you’re going to move on and if our paths cross again…" tears rained down, "maybe I’ll be more, enough by then."

"You’re already everything!" He called after her as she hurried away, her eyes so wet and blurry she tripped over her own feet as she went.

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