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Getting Hotter Elle Kennedy 14420K 2023-09-01

"Oh, I knohere he is Prison Maxi froas and accidentally shot and killed the clerk Trent was convicted of arhter and a bunch of other stuff I can’t reible for parole at some point Not sure when"

Rather than pose another question or urge her to continue, Seth waited it out He’d discovered that people werepressured to spill thehed softly and said, "I know you wantDon’t pretend otherwise"

He chuckled Busted

"You’re curious about how I ht?"

"Yeah, but you don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to"

She shrugged "It’s not soraduated froe at the end of the summer I landed a dance scholarship at the University of Nevada Full ride"

"Nice," he said, impressed

Her voice took on a faraway note "Yeah, it was nice I was so excited about it And then Ias a waitress at this twenty-four-hour diner on the Strip and one night Trent rode up on his Harley He was the ultimate bad boy Leather jacket, arorgeous"

With a sad s the sheet up with her and tucking it over her brsts "I was such a goody-goody all throughout high school I had to be--h for the both of us, and I didn’t want to be anything like him But when Trent walked into that diner? God, I wanted to be bad and irresponsible Just once, I wanted to be the girl who rode on a uy, not the one who saved all her tips in a jar so she could pay for college textbooks"

"So you jumped on the back of that Harley and told your responsibilities to fk off?"

"Yep" She looked at hiht? Very unlike e deal since I already had a ton of , left ho across the country with Trent I lost irl, you You tarnished a national treasure"

"Ha-ha" She rolled her eyes, but the hu "I’m pretty certain that’s where the tere conceived I was three as"

"Wait, you were pregnant that whole ti periods," she explained "Or at least I thought I was And during the secondsickness, but since I didn’t realize I was even late, I figured it was the stoet a period, so that’s when I finally took a test"

"Was Trent with you?"

She nodded "We were at a rest-stop bathrooether, and the secondthat pink plus sign, Trent tossed the stick in the trash and said it was tio home"