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to the mannequins.
     
    “There great but shouldn’t you wear a bit more?”
     
    “Don’t get jealous on me now,” she teased as she adjusted a piece of fabric. Her smile dropped as she fussed with it. Jack felt the mood darken in the room.
     
    “What happened tonight?” She asked quietly. If she said it any softer Jack wouldn’t have heard her. “I mean, why else would you come. Did something happen? Is it…her?”
     
    Jack walked over and wrapped her in his arms. Somehow she could always read him and she knew that she couldn’t say Paxton’s name out loud without getting a pained reaction from him. So whenever she spoke about Paxton, she was always ‘her’.
     
    “Nothing happened that I can’t handle.”
     
    “Please tell me you are not going back.” Jack heard the worry and pleading in her voice.
     
    “No, I have everything I need right here,” he squeezed her. He knew it wasn’t the whole truth but for now, it was. He just needed to convince himself that Kenleigh was good for him. She was what he needed and he did have feelings for her, just not as strongly as he did with Paxton, but that could change. He knew it could.
     
    Kenleigh stayed silent and Jack wished he could hear what she was thinking. The side of her face was pressed into his chest. Her arms hung loosely around his waist. “I should let you get back to work Kitten, otherwise you will be stressed tomorrow,” he released her.
     
    “I do need to finish.”
     
    “See you when you get home? I want you there in my arms when I wake up,” he said still trying to calm her fears about him going back to Kansas.
     
    “Yeah, but I can’t do that if you are still here,” she smiled.
     
    “Alright, I’m going. See you soon, Kitten,” he kissed her hand and headed home.
     
    Jack awoke to silence the next morning. He reached over to the other side of the bed but it was empty. He sat up and looked at his phone. It was nearly noon and no one had woken him up. He briefly wondered if Kenleigh came home last night. Her shoot was this morning. He hoped she would be back soon. He didn’t like being alone with his thoughts. He rolled out of bed and headed towards the shower.
     
    Jack walked back into him room with a towel wrapped around his hips. He took another and rubbed it through his hair. It was blocking his view as he walking towards his closet.  He picked out some jeans and shirt he decided on. He headed back towards the room to lay them on the bed so he could finish getting ready for the day when he spotted Kenleigh laying there. She had finally come home. He dropped the towel that was secured around his hips and slid back into bed behind her and just wrapped her in his arms. She sighed and flipped around to face him.
     
    “It was an all-nighter and into the shoot. Sorry I wasn’t here when you woke up.”
     
    “It’s okay, you’re here now. Just go to sleep, I know you’re tired,” he smiled at her. She snuggled against him. Jack knew this is what he needed, he should be happy with Kenleigh but his thoughts still wandered back to Paxton when he was alone.
     
    Any other guy in his position would never think about going back to their ex after they cheated on them with multiple people. Yes, Paxton was in a dark place and most people would accept that as an excuse but Jack knew that it was partly his fault for not being there. She drank heavily before she did it, so Jack knew she wasn’t in her right mind. Her decision-making skills were not intact, but then again, Duke was sober through most of it. Jack closed his eyes. He tried to make sense of it all but no matter what, his heart still yearned for Paxton. Was it guilt that he wasn’t there for her? Jealously that Duke has a chance? Or was it because she was his first love and no matter what he will always love her? Jack wasn’t sure if he could even live without Paxton. Sure he was doing it now, but was it because Kenleigh was a distraction from how he truly felt? He