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I knocked once on the door before trying it to find it unlocked So I let myself in

Zwinn sentThen they pointed down the hall "He’s in his room"

I headed that way As soon as I stepped through the doorway, hungry hands pulled rasping the he it up, over ht this wasn’t a booty call," I said as I lifted

He reached around for the back clasp ofthe bra, he leaned in and kissed the top-most swell of my breasts Then he removed my pants Yeah, this sure as hell felt like a booty call to o for ed one of his huge T-shirts over my head instead It smelled like him, and I couldn’t help but to inhale the heady scent

Then he took my hand and led me to the bed Once we’d crawled under the covers and he’d positioned my head to rest on his shoulder as he wrapped his arh and all hissatisfied "That’s better"

I s, solid heartbeat echo intoby threading his fingers throughlocks

"Mood"

I could fall asleep to this, no proble and let hi, my ould still be barren My brother would still be in the dark about the greatest relationship of ly or how long I’d loved him

"Tell me about your childhood"

His soft question hadmy eyes open "Why?"

"Because I want to know Ga about you, except that you existed, until the day I lamorous"

"I don’t care I justI want to knohat it was like for you Had you lived in that trailer house your entire life?"

"No I mean, yes, we’d always lived in trailer houses, but not that one specifically We stayed in a little bit nicer, three-bedrooe My raded to the one youmy hair as I described one a lot, and when she was home, she didn’t pay a lot of attention to us I re atNoel buffered a lot He’s such a natural leader" I smiled "Still is, kind of bossy sometimes, but I wouldn’t trade him for the world He alwaysback now, I’h to keep the three of us happy I mean, he couldn’t do much, but hehe tried, you know He really tried"

"He’s a good brother," Oren reed

"Were you e?"

"No Not at all" I remembered how petulant Brandt had been, but I’d known Noel needed to go I’d been ready to take over and do whatever I had to so he couldbrother was going to get a college degree with his football scholarship "I didn’t realize quite how h" Until I’d had to step in and try to do what he’d always done

"How old were you?"

"Fifteen And I really tried to use the money he sent home wisely I paid the bills he told roceries we needed, but soe when I shouldn’t have, and I’d get Brandt and Colton some toy they really didn’t need orto fix every mistake I made, except each one seemed to set us back just a little bit further"

"You did the best you could"

"And yet I never achieved the Noel Gaainst me, Oren snorted "Who could? Trust uy for four years No one can be as great as ESU’s alhty football star"