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"Move your ass, Bella" He pointed back toward carandma could run that"

Was there anyone bossier in all of Harkness College? I doubted it "You’re not my favorite person today"

He stretched his quads "Eh It’s been awhile since I was your favorite person What’s one ave him one more ornery look, then I took off down the hill

He was startled, I think I swear he had to hustle to catch up

If it hadn’t been downhill, I wouldn’t have been able toBy the ti and I had a painful stitch in my side My body was clearly stunned at this sudden demand for locomotion What the fuck, it see up short in the cesidehard

"You think?" I growled "Where’s your favorite grave?"

He took off running, heading to the right After twenty paces or so I saw hi on each inhale, I chased after hio far Half way down the row of headstones, Rafe stood just off the path, waiting for audy limpsed many times from the street But he waited in front of a simple slate stone that was rounded at the top "This is your favorite?" I gasped, sounding like an eenarian

"Yeah, because it tells a story"

I knelt in front of the stone, both to see it better and also as a cheap way of resting "Here lies Daniel Webber, age 14, killed by a log he ed "I’m not sure why they bothered to put that on here Most of the other stones just give the dates and maybe the spouse’s name"

I shivered "He cut down a tree, and it fell on hi"

Rafe’s lips twitched "That must have happened all the ti to say that I don’t have it so bad?"

"Nah I just like old things And this is one of therateful he wasn’t running anylanced over his shoulder, then down at his watch "Probably… a mile and a half?"

"Really?" I ran a rinned, the way you s, Bella You probably walk twice that far every day"

"Still," I said He wouldn’t understand I spent a lot of ti after athletes who benched three hundred in the weight room and squatted six hundred But it was never me ore the tired, satisfied look of someone who’d just completed a workout