Forum: Residential
03-31-2026, 09:42 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 966
Cameron felt every word of it land.
Not just...
Cameron felt every word of it land.
Not just the compliment about dinner. Not just the pie, the wine, the leftovers, the formal reinstatement implied by Lucy Corbett’s mother sending him home with...
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Forum: Main Street
03-31-2026, 07:15 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 440
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Forum: Main Street
03-31-2026, 06:43 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 440
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Forum: Main Street
03-31-2026, 04:31 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 440
For a second, Cameron couldn’t feel anything...
For a second, Cameron couldn’t feel anything except her hand.
Warm. Certain. Real.
It slid over his like it had every right to be there, like she hadn’t just reached straight through every...
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Forum: Main Street
03-30-2026, 11:34 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 440
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Forum: Main Street
03-30-2026, 04:39 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 440
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Forum: Main Street
03-30-2026, 11:33 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 440
For a second, Cameron just stared at her.
...
For a second, Cameron just stared at her.
Not because he hadn’t heard her.
Because he had.
Every word of it.
The way she talked about Honey Bee like it was something she’d built with both...
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Forum: Main Street
03-30-2026, 09:22 AM
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Replies: 16
Views: 440
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Forum: Main Street
03-29-2026, 11:56 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 440
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Forum: Main Street
03-29-2026, 03:41 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 24,278
Cameron’s mouth pulled at that before he could...
Cameron’s mouth pulled at that before he could stop it.
Not just because she’d laughed.
Because she’d looked at him when she said it—eyes warmer than they’d been ten minutes ago, voice lighter,...
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Forum: Main Street
03-28-2026, 07:22 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 24,278
Cameron heard two things at once.
The first...
Cameron heard two things at once.
The first was You can walk with me.
The second—the one that hit lower and warmer and a whole lot less safely—was Just like I’m keeping the photo you took of...
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Forum: Main Street
03-28-2026, 04:43 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 24,278
Cameron listened to all of it.
Mae and the...
Cameron listened to all of it.
Mae and the shop. The dentist appointment. The wrinkled blouses. The candle intervention. Dinner with her parents and the inevitable family-wide strategic planning...
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Forum: Main Street
03-28-2026, 04:49 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 24,278
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Forum: Main Street
03-27-2026, 06:25 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 24,278
The sugar packet bounced off his chest, dropped...
The sugar packet bounced off his chest, dropped into his lap, and for half a second Cameron just looked down at it like he’d been personally ambushed by a very small, very polite act of violence.
...
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Forum: Main Street
03-27-2026, 05:18 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 24,278
Cameron let her finish.
All of it.
The...
Cameron let her finish.
All of it.
The could be normal. The if I let it. The deeply annoying connection still there between them, named with that dry, exasperated honesty only Lucy could get...
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Forum: Main Street
03-27-2026, 10:47 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 24,278
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Forum: Main Street
03-26-2026, 08:42 AM
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Replies: 37
Views: 24,278
Cameron felt the halfway there before he let...
Cameron felt the halfway there before he let himself react to anything else.
Not in a way that made him grin like he’d won something.
Just enough to send a low, warm pull through his chest that...
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Forum: Main Street
03-25-2026, 09:03 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 24,278
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Forum: Main Street
03-25-2026, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 24,278
Cameron felt the I almost kept walking land...
Cameron felt the I almost kept walking land harder than anything else she’d said since sitting down.
Not because it surprised him.
Because it didn’t.
He had seen it outside through the...
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Forum: Main Street
03-24-2026, 09:43 PM
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Replies: 37
Views: 24,278
Cameron had already been inside the café for...
Cameron had already been inside the café for nearly fifteen minutes when the bell over the door rang.
Long enough for the first cup of coffee to be halfway gone. Long enough for Marla to ask...
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Forum: Downtown
03-24-2026, 07:35 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 41,743
Cameron didn’t reach for the hat right away.
...
Cameron didn’t reach for the hat right away.
Not because he didn’t want it.
Because for half a second, with her standing there holding it out between them, he saw too much at once—the way her...
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Forum: Downtown
03-24-2026, 04:47 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 41,743
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Forum: Downtown
03-24-2026, 12:20 AM
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Replies: 58
Views: 41,743
Cameron felt both things at once.
The...
Cameron felt both things at once.
The question landed first.
Clean. Direct. No place to hide inside it.
If she figured it out and it wasn’t him—if this all settled one day into something...
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Forum: Downtown
03-23-2026, 02:01 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 41,743
Cameron didn’t answer right away.
Not...
Cameron didn’t answer right away.
Not because he didn’t have one.
Because if he answered too fast, it was going to come out wrong.
Too pleased. Too sharp. Too much like he’d been waiting for...
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Forum: Downtown
03-22-2026, 09:48 PM
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Replies: 58
Views: 41,743
Cameron let out a quiet laugh at that.
Not...
Cameron let out a quiet laugh at that.
Not loud. Not forced. Just enough to break against the cooling air between them when she tossed unless you’re scared his way like she wasn’t very carefully...
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