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Not that she knew that little tidbit of information, but she had to wonder why she healed faster than everyone else and never got sick When he was a kid, long before he found out what and who he was, he just thought he was a lucky bastard While most people took months for a broken bone to heal it took hier bone

He wasn’t exactly sure about the scientific reasoning behind their healing abilities, but he knew it had soel No doubt it did so to his human body

Many Sentinels believed that when the half souls co the their lives Whatever it was it had come in handy a time or two in his life It also connected him to the wo her his an to trail down her body he had to force hiroan He shifted uncorabbed a floral throw pillow and placed it over his lap How in the hell did huain as his erection threatened to tear through his pants It was da to have to learn to ignore

It’s not like sex was a top priority in his life or even interested hier he couldn’t force himself to be into it Sure he’d h school, but that had been

His situation had already been fked up enough without letting everyone think he didn’t like girls

Having a hooker for aas he didn’t have to deal with foster homes he’d been happy It hadn’t mattered that sometimes he had to sleep under the trailer because her "dates" hadn’t felt co her with only an old sheet used as a door separating them, or that most of his food caer discount

Okay, so happy ht not be the way he described his childhood, but it had beenhe’d stayed out of foster homes and didn’t let everyone kno truly fked up his life really was As long as everyone thought he was untouchable and that nothing could hurt hiod, you’re pregnant!" he heard his sister Jill shriek happily fro under his breath, he quicklyshe was too wrapped up in Madison’s news to notice

For the past ten years she’d been taunting the hell out of him about his mate, but thankfully not in a bitchy way Her bitchy days were long gone, thank god He’d probably have killed her by now if she was anything like she was the first time he met her

When she first arrived in Rerum, New Hampshire with Madison, Joshua and their mother Candy, she’d been a Class A bitch, much like Candy At least for the first week of her arrival, then she kind of simmered down a bit He wasn’t sure what the hell happened, but he had a feeling Madison and Grande She’d still been a bit of a spoiled bitch at times after that, but he’d done his best to stay the hell out of her hen he moved in

Back then he’d been too damn scared to really care what Jill said or did to hi house with very little privacy for them and easily the best place he’d ever lived in It had been too good to be true at the time and he’d been scared shitless that he’d screw up and they’d kick him out, or worse send him to foster care

For the first feeeks he’d been too scared to act up and cause any problems, afraid he’d upset Madison or Grandma So, he made it a point to stay out of everyone’s way and do what he was asked the first ti He evenasked to so that Grandht he waited for everyone to fall asleep before he silently snuck into Joshua’s rooht by the door Joshua had only been ten years old at the time and had been more than happy to have Chris stay in his room He viewed it as secret sleepovers Chris had viewed it as keeping the little boy safe

He hadn’t cared how nice the men who rented rooms from Grandma seemed They were still men he didn’t know and therefore didn’t trust It was one of the life lessons he learned early on in foster care and one that took the first time

His hands clenched into fists alht It hadn’t been his first time in foster care or even the first time he’d had the shit kicked out of him by an adult entrusted with his care, but it had been the first time a man tried to crawl into his bed

He could still re off the old couch he’d been forced to sleep on as he did his best to stay warave him a decent amount of blankets, but they’d been thin and worn and didn’t do much to keep hi the night he considered going to their roo rooiven him earlier that day when he spilled milk stopped him He didn’t want to knohat they’d do if he woke the and walking back to the trailer where his mom lived, but he hadn’t been sure if she was still in jail or not Even at six years old he knew she’d be serving at least thirty days for solicitation, not that he’d knohat that meant at the time, but it was the usual reason she went away

To this day he thanked his lucky stars that he hadn’t been asleep on the couch when Ted, his foster father at the time, came into the room If he had…

He didn’t even want to think about what could have happened if things had been different It was bad enough that he ended up in the hospital with a broken arm and three cracked ribs A broken bone or two he could handle, but what that man and several others after had in mind for him would have broken him

They were the reason why he still went to bed with a weapon nearby and why he slept on Joshua’s floor ten years ago He didn’t want the sweet little boy hurt He wasn’t sure if Madison or Grand on If they did they never said anything to him and Joshua certainly never told anyone The only person who knehat he was doing as far as he could tell was Ephraim

Of course it hadn’t been exactly a shock that theHis father was a Pyte after all

Of course Chris wasn’t sure if his father kneas in Joshua’s room because he heard him or smelled him since Pytes also had an incredible sense of s as a shifter’s and easily a hundred tier than a va with a living GPS unit Theand anyone doith very little effort, which is why it wasn’t too surprising when he discovered Chris sleeping on Joshua’s floor

Three weeks after Ephraiht the house and tossed all the boarders out, not to mention adopted hiht unless he knew the little boy was safe It wasn’t because he thought Ephraim would hurt the boy He trusted Ephraim, probably since the first time he’d arrested Chris when he was still a detective for the state police