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I was temporarily confused, but when his eyebrows raised ht on
As I led Alex into -the-rules lurch My parents didnʼt have Mrs Matthewsʼ strict No Boys Allowed in the Bedroom EVER rule, itʼs kind of pointless with Jase and Charlie around, but I knew they would consider this a no-no
"So, this isa pile of dirty laundry under the bed "As you can see, Iʼm a clean freak"
Alex stopped just inside the door to exa on the wall Dad had snapped it at the lake several suel, a toddler at the ti ht, an ice crea down her hand Jase and Charlie were oneach other bunny ears We had spent the day swirimy, but ere happy You could al off the picture
"How old were you here?"
"It was right before my thirteenth birthday I think it may have actually been Jaseʼs fa every picture and poster that hung on the wall
Thankfully, Zac Effron had recently been replaced by a print of Van Goghʼs Cafe Terrace
When he paused in front of my bookshelf to read titles I felt a familiar warmth return to my face
"This isnʼt what I was expecting," he finally adrabbed a stack of library books, all urban fantasy titles, and shuffled theot quite the supernatural fetish," he said, thuh a stack that was out of my reach
"Itʼs research," I said "Even fiction can be full of useful facts Iʼve learned a lot from these books" Mostly I had learned I was somewhat addicted to mildly trashy novels that had the ability to make me blush
"Really?" Alex pulled out a Laurell K Hamilton paperback "And what exactly did you learn froh heat toI could repeat out loud I snatched the book out his hands before he could flip through the pages and find out exactly what that nothing was Alex just chuckled and continued his survey ofa full lap around the roo fro a man in your bed? I must say, Iʼm quite shocked, Miss Donovan"
"Alex, meet Guido Guido, Alex" I flopped down next to hi asleep in each otherʼs arms for years"
Alex examined the battered old sock monkey "I can see why He certainly is handsome" In truth, Guido has seen better days Moeries to stitch up arms, mend holes, and even reattach eyes over the years He ly, but I loved hi one day when he o," I said "She and Dad werenʼt married yet, so it had to have been either late suo into the toy store and Jase starts pointing at this sockʻScoutʼ over and over Mom tried to explain that his soon-to-be sister was not athe thing just so people wouldnʼt call Child Protection Services