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He grinned, and her heart did a juvenile little flip He was so ular features of his softened, the dangerous glint in his eyes dimmed, and he lost that predatory air

But she wasn’t foolish enough to believe that beneath Seth’sexterior was a ood cheer Make nobad wolf, and da to let him make her his next meal

"What about you?" Seth asked "Did you do any rebelling of your own?"

"I got pregnant at eighteen--what do you think?"

He chuckled "So how did it go down? Strict parents, curfew, a million rules that you eventually decided to break?"

"Not exactly I lived with randed my existence" Even so many years later, she couldn’t control the bitterness that rushed to the surface

He furrowed his brows "What about yourbirth toaccident--she was the drunk driver, by the way, and the only casualty in the huge pileup she caused" Miranda offered a gri a baby I have no idea why he didn’t just put me up for adoption"

"Maybe because he loved you?" Seth said in a surprisingly gentle voice

"He doesn’t love anyone but hi my entire childhood Sometimes I wouldn’t see hi?"

"Gah "I have no idea what he does now--I haven’t seen him since I left home--but back then he worked odd jobs, , whatever he could find Then he’d take his paycheck and cash it at the casino And then he’d lose every penny, corandrandmother still alive?"

She shook her head "She died a year after the tere born Stroke"

"Shit I’m sorry What was she like?" The cushions shifted as Seth leaned forward to put his beer on the simple pine coffee table

After a second, Miranda did the saht her knees up to her chest and wrapped her ar lady up until the day she died She made sure I had clothes on my back and food in my belly, but she didn’t show e disappointe of hiave up onruffly

"The one thing she did do was pay for my dance lessons To this day, I’m still baffled by it Maybe she wanted s a week And she left me some money when she died, which I also don’t understand"

"Maybe she cared about you and that was the only way she kne to show it," he countered