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"Yes That didn’t matter to Sefton I don’t think he would have cared if ain, if his new mate had been a wolf and not a coyote"

"So your uncle took him in?"

"Yeah My father turned him over to my uncle to raise after Sefton tried to burn down the house"

Tory he was saddled with raising your half brother?"

"Not that I ever saw He raised Sefton like he was his own son At least that’s the way it appeared to ether I think it was more thatmates of their own because of their association with my mom and dad"

"It couldn’t have been because of the way they were? Thatto do with your parents or you?"

Elizabeth didn’t say anything for a while as he stroked her silky hair

"What about Bruin? He’s dead now, so no longer a problem where you’re concerned, but would he have sanctioned your parents’ ht have I never saw him I don’t kno he treated my uncle and half brother"

It didn’t really ht All thatas responsible for her parents’ death and everything concerning her parents’ murderers and their involve about her He sht that she was his hed a little "He was a character Good-natured Loving He was a perfectionist, and when he showed -winded detail, indicating exactly hoas to do it When he was done, I’d ask if he could showthree cast-iron pans to wash, I’d only get stuck with one"

Toot to be a joke with us because he was like that with everything Every tiarden to plant a tree, or whatever Usually by the third tiain, he’d smile and make me do it"

"I would have liked him," Tom said

"Yeah, you would have And hed heavily

Tom didn’t knohat to say He was afraid the memories were too sad for Elizabeth, but before he could atteuff froet it from"

"Yeah," she said drea time, and when she fell asleep, he followed A few hours later, he heard soht--that jarred him awake

To to wake her, but she quickly sat up as he left the bed He grabbed the rifle, hurried to the bedroom door, and yanked it open