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Only to have hiht

She hated hi for him

"Good luck with the rest of your charmed life"

Chapter Thirty-one

Zach’s life had turned into a god da fluid in a customer’s transmission and it burned to a crisp, his staff wouldn’t let hi on his coave it a virus and his executive assistant asked him, politely but firmly, to please stay away froot the hard drive repaired His vocabulary shrank to a handful of curse words when reporters covering his accident at the race track called to ask what he thought about the pictures of Ryan and S Heather back from the track as his car burned, and now the press was pissed at hi else, Gabe had ratted him out to the entire faiven the puppy back--along with a clear visual of the horror on Heather’s face that Gabe had likely recounted to all of thees wanting to knohat his problem was

Lori went so far as to threaten him with bodily hare she’d made it perfectly clear that she had plenty of brothers already, so it was an easy decision for her to stick with Heather if he was going to keep being too ht

"We all kno you feel about her," hat she’d said in her ing in his ears "Heather and I were getting to be friends, but now she won’t call es fro to the to say they’d heard fro her, not even Gabe, who he figured was doing training sessions with Cuddles at Top Dog

It wasn’t evenhi their panties in such a twist overit back to Summer

Only, all the old lies he’d always told hi anyry with him

Because he’d lost Heather

Hell It orse than that

He’d convinced Heather to walk to the edge of a hundred-story building, went out of his way to convince her she was safeand then he’d shoved her off

God, that last night at his house he’d hated seeing her spark fade, hated even more that he was the cause of it, but he couldn’t stop, couldn’t just shut up and pull her into his arripped with the need to save them both before they went too far, too deep, into a forever that could--or couldn’t, depending on the same bad luck and shitty fate that had befallen his father--be out there for them