The St. Paul Conspiracy (44 page)

“Is it going to scare you away from me?”

She sat up and looked him in the eye. “No. But you have to know that if we’re going to be together, I will worry about you. I’ll tell you that I worry about you. You’ll have to understand that I’ll feel that, every time you walk out the door, it might be the last time I see you. You’ll have to understand that that is what I’ll have to live with. So, there’s one thing you’ll have to get used to.”

“What’s that?”

“That every time you walk out the door now, I’m going to tell you that I love you.”

Mac smiled. “I can live with that.”