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Could it be that rushing things with Heather wasn’t the way to go, either?

"Oh, I al up from the table to hand him a photo, "I found this under a pillow The frae to the picture"

It was an old black and white photo, one of the only ones he had with his father in it His mom and dad had their arms around each other and Marcus, S their best to hold still for the photographer

"If it wasn’t black and white, I would have thought the man in the picture was you"

"It’s what everyone says I’m the carbon copy of my father When I was a kid, ould spend hours under the hood of soether"

"How old were you here?"

"Four"

His father had died only three years after the picture had been taken Three years and teeks The anniversary of Jack Sullivan’s death was never a good day Zach’s creork had learned to steer clear of his shittyto rip off that bow tie," Heather said with a small smile One that told hiiven up to hi rooe by five after this picture was shot and ere let loose"

He loved the sound of her laughter, the way it pushed away the dark clouds that ca about his father

"I wouldn’t think a woman as beautiful as your mother could deal with soat us, you could have sold a picture of her to ahis focus on his mother rather than his father this tih, she’s still a great-looking broad"

He looked up to see Heather staring at him as if she’d never seen him before this veryhis lips around women before It was usually the other way around, when they couldn’t stop telling him how excited they were to be with hi to ht of you?"

"Monant with my brother Gabe in this picture Lori and Sophie came a couple of years later" He decided to break the ice for her, just in case she’d been holding out on him "Smith is that one And there’s Ryan"

She looked at the picture again "Who are the other two?"