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Gavin bit his lip, his eyes tracing Emily’s face "You’re so full of shit"
"Oh no, but Mr Blake, I’ the little bit you’ll have to, I’ll be a guaranteed good ti his hand up her back, Gavin tangled his fingers in her hair, tugging just enough With a clear view of her gorgeous neck inches froed his lips across her collarbone as he gripped her hair tighter "I’ve created a wo to winof hi on her neck, E She’d backed herself into a corner and had no desire whatsoever to co?" The questioned filtered out as aher tank top over her head He tossed it onto the bed and reburied a hand in her soft hair The other cupped one of her breasts Eyes locked on hers, he licked her nipple Anotherhe was beating her at her own gaet me to wear this sweatshirt today, Miss Cooper?"
Yep Completely backed in a corner Emily lost the battle But not really, because by the tione, not only was she achingly rejuvenated by her boyfriend’sforward to seeing him sport the hideous color yellow for the re out "Rocking Around the Christ roo ready to sit down and watch the basketball gaainst hers as the two of theh E sheet and popped the tray into the already heated oven
"Re?" Lisa’s tone was cheerful as she reached into the refrigerator for a pie shell that would eventually hold ho her dance around to it She loved Christht smile touched Emily’s face at the bittersweet memory She flipped on the faucet and placed her hands under the ater "Yeah She did love Christmas"
Lisa set the pie shell on the counter, once again buhed, enjoying the jovial ht to the h Lisa, in a sense, had replaced theirbefore she’d passed away and she alwaysE her how to apply ly fell into the role thrust upon her after their father left And not once did she ever throw her responsibilities resentfully into Ehts came and ithout theirto put food on the table or out with one of her newest boyfriends, Lisa kept a certain level of consistency in E sense of peace
As Eht hostility toward her ut, she started to wonder why she’d allowed heras she did Sure, her mother didn’t live to see what Dillon had morphed into Before she took her last breath, Patricia Cooper left the earth thinking her youngest daughter was being swept off her feet by a true knight in shining are, she would’ve told her to get rid of hi long conversations, she had always let E her well, she should walk away
The signs had been there Warning flags aved in every direction fro her However, she blanked the Dillon, she was told it was possible she leaned into Dillon after her er existed anymore He was a witness to a soul anotheron to hi on to her past Although that past was painted with specks of sorrow, it was still familiar, understood It was cold, yet warht she would never experience again It was soone
As E filtered into her thoughts Not only did she have to forgive her ive herself And that’s exactly what she did in those seconds in her sister’s kitchen on this particular late Christin to fully understand the way her mother was or the way she’d followed in her path, Emily reached into her heart and stripped away the last bit of negativity she held toward herself and her mother
"Hey, I lost you there for a few" Lisa’s soft voice lulled Eave a weak smile "Are you okay?"
E As if sensing what Eht Her co hold seized Emily with love as it always did
"Uh oh We’ve interrupted a sisterly moment" Michael chuckled as he and Gavin strolled into the kitchen "We suck,at his jewel, Gavin sainst the arched entryway He watched E hiht his Even dressed in sweatpants and a sweatshirt, she was so goddamn beautiful she took his breath away With a smile on her face that filled him coh his body as she looped her ar down her back as she looked up at hienuinely happy, and he could feel it