" I don’t want to be a one-night stand again,” Cole blurted out. “I don’t want to sleep with you and have to pretend it didn’t happen. I don’t want you to run away again.” I don’t want you to throw me away again. “I want…” He stumbled. Hesitated. “I want this to mean something to you. Because it does to me. "

― Tal Bauer , The Murder Between Us (A Noah & Cole Thriller, #1)