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anything potentially upsetting or stressful.  Lindsay had done the same.  Nobody noticed that I was an adult now.  Wyatt was the only person who had seen that I am strong now.  My heart clenched thinking that the one person who really saw me wasn’t who I thought he was.
    “I know , Taryn, your mother and I just want to protect you.  We will be coming home this weekend.  I know you and Lindsay were looking forward to your trip to the Hamptons, but I have to insist you stay put.  Now that the press has caught wind of this, they will be all over you.  So I don’t want you going back to your apartment yet.”
    “Fine.   I’ll stay at home for now.  But we need to really talk about this when you get here.”  I said goodbye to my dad and handed Wyatt’s phone back to him, still refusing to look at him.
    When we pulled up to my parents’ apartment building there were reporters out front already.  Wyatt helped me out of the car and hurried me inside, nodding at the doorman when we passed.  Apparently everyone but me knew who Wyatt was.  We got in the elevators and Wyatt punched in the code to take us up to the top floor.  When we entered the foyer, Wyatt motioned for me to stay put while he walked through the apartment.  I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms over my chest – I seriously doubted any reporters were hiding in a closet, but I guess this was his job.  His job, I thought with a heavy heart.  Was everything between us just a perk of his job?
    A few minutes later Wyatt came back into the foyer and approached me cautiously, like I was a rabid animal about to attack.  “Taryn,” he began.  I held up a hand to stop him.  “I need some time to process this, Wyatt.  I can’t talk to you right now.”  I quickly walked past him and down the hallway on the left towards my room before he could see the tears that were threatening to spill down my cheeks.  I didn’t want him to see how much he affected me.  Not now when I wasn’t sure what was real.
    O nce I was alone in my room I shut the door and walked over to the window not bothering to turn on the light.  As I looked out the window over the lights of the city, I remembered the first night I had spent in this room.  It was two weeks after my parents had met me at the Children’s Home.  They had used my dad’s connections to expedite the adoption process, and my mom had everything ready for me when they brought me home.  My bedroom was the most beautiful room I had ever seen decorated in shades of white and cream with accents of pale pink and gray.  It was peaceful and calm with just the right amount of feminine touches.
    My parents had offered to have it redone as I got older, so I could choose the décor, but I loved it too much to change a thing.  It became my sanctuary as I grew up, my safe place, and tonight was no different.  I don’t know how long I stood there looking out the window before I heard a knock and Wyatt’s low voice.  “Taryn?  Dominic is back with Lindsay.  Can you come out to the living room?”  I opened the door and tried to avoid looking at him, but it was impossible not to look into his dark eyes and see the pain there.
    Lindsay had changed out of her dress and was wearing jeans and a t-shirt.  I saw she had brought my laptop and packed a bag for me.  She raised her eyebrows at me as a silent way of asking if I was okay.  I sat down next to her on the couch and shrugged my shoulders in response.  I honestly didn’t know if I was okay yet.  Dominic was there with the blond guy I had seen arguing with Wyatt that day he had walked me to class, probably another one of my security team that I didn’t know.
    “So, I talked to my mom on the way over here.  She told me our trip to the Hamptons is off.  Boo.”  Lindsay said with a pouty face.  “Yeah, I know.  I guess I’m s tuck here until my parents come home this weekend and fill me in on what is going on.”  Lindsay glanced behind me to