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Kids could be brutal, especially if they’d been abused theh his father’s words ain, no matter what the lad Susan and Bob opened up their hearts, and their houest"

"You weren’t a houseguest at all You were a son to them from the start"

"I know that now But it took years And a lot of acting out And continued silence Like you said, sometimes that’s the worst It must have hurt them that I couldn’t let it all out Theyme When the truth was that I would have died without theratitude"

Her chest was achy and tight for the boy he’d been, for the pain he’d felt, the agony, for the adult world he couldn’t understand

But he had learned in the end To accept love To trust To discover people’s true worth

Until Whitney had destroyed hiain

Nothing and no one on earth could have stopped Paige fro hi, her warmth, her sympathy, her co, when they needed an arh That’s all it was It was all she intended it to be

Until Evan’s mouth met hers

And it becae, her taste, her scent Her kiss was heady, and he lost himself in her, the feel of her smooth, soft skin beneath his hand where he reached up to cup her cheek, the sound of her breath as it hitched, the sexy littlein the dark Now, he let hi her close, until there wasn’t an inch left between theed her lips She surrounded hi hi hi to hiiving way beneath the force of his need Her bra was next, the thin silk straps no barrier at all as he kissed his way down her neck to the hollow at her collarbone and along her shoulder Her head fell back, giving hireater access, and she tantalized hih his body

He dragged the silk, down, down, down…until the swells of her gorgeous breasts fell free

He had to touch--Lord, she was beautiful--had to brush the pads of his thumbs over the taut peaks And he had to taste He would die if he didn’t His lips closed around her, sucking, laving her with his tongue, plu her flesh With his other hand, he cupped her butt through her jeans, his body rocking up to roan of need "It’s so good So perfect Please Don’t stop"

God, he didn’t ever want to stop But her voiceit was

He couldn’t keep kissing her, couldn’t touch her breasts again, couldn’t taste her as if she were his