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He sat beside gle adoringly against him He absently stroked her as he spoke "She’s not so bad I’s when I was growing up But I found her in a gutter when she was a newborn It looked like her mother had been hit by a car I tried to save the whole litter, but she was the only one who made it"

Tears threatened to coh "Are you for real? Seriously? You ive your foster parents the Parent of the Year award, but they seeood job with you Please tell me you have some flaws, or are you not really human?"

He kept his attention on the cat as his face turned redder than I’d ever seen it With him, thesoenetic variance And I have plenty of flaws For one thing, I’ to people My house is a mess, too"

"I like it It’s cozy"

He didn’t say anything for a while, and I joined hiht have adored her owner, but she didn’t seem to see me as the other woman or a threat to her position in the household I was simply someone else to fuss over her

Then, just as I was getting coain, "What happened tonight? It had to have been pretty bad to have you running out in this weather without a coat"

I scratched a purring Loony under her chin as I thought about how to respond There wasn’t an easy way to tell a guy you were in serious danger of falling in love with that you’d just run screa away from his best friend I finally said, "Can we table that discussion for later? I’m not ready to talk about it, and I think I need to process it a little more before I’d even knohat to say"

He nodded "Okay Take all the time you need Just know that you’re safe here You can relax"

"Thank you And thank you for co there, anyway? Did you know sohborhood at the right ti"

"Your ESP must have a twenty-four-hour Katie channel"

"So like that Maybe I’ether I’ve never done nition always seemed too erratic to analyze before" He looked up atto do with the fact that you’re so utterly irresistible," he added, his voice not much more than a whisper