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"Partly She was also pretty andcare of her" He chuckled but it didn’t have any humor in it "She never looked at me as more than a friend or a brother, not once Most of the ti me to do what everyone expected She wanted , to date a cheerleader, and she wanted me to keep my mouth shut and let the otheryour dad and her boyfriends never failed to do"
I turned and rubbed the end of my nose into his chest This wasn’t exactly a pleasant conversation to be having but I think it was long past tiht because she was stable and planted in the Texas dust, but what about ain and this time there was amusement in it
"To a ten-year-old boy you were the prettiest thing I had ever seen You ild, loud, and didn’t see I knew you hated to be home, hated all the rules your parents put on you, but you never let it stop you fro full of joy I just wanted to be around you all the ti the war that was so cold inside of me You were the only person that ever made me feel like it was okay to be a lost kid that was reallykilled You never once ratitude for the bare minimu to ain"
That made my throat close up and I cuddled even farther into hihs and looked up at him from under my eyelashes
"I should have tried to keep in touch I meant to but I was just overwhel you was hard That leaving Poppy behind sucked, but I really did have to do it"
I should tell his back then I was scared of never getting out ofto be full of endless rules and regulations I was scaredto turn intoto get trapped into doing so to chaseto let other people decide for him how he should live his life and what his passions should be I was glad only a select few of those fears had been realized
"I guess we all had to do things that we didn’t really want to do in order to make it to where ere supposed to be" His voice istful and sort of s I could hear a hundred different shadows filled withit
Since I was looking up at him, he leaned down and placed a sweet kiss on my lips That was all it took to turn the rets into so with desire and need I wanted to tell hiood ure that out on his own
GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT ON THURSDAYS had changed a little over the last , Shaw couldn’t drink because she was pregnant, and no one wanted to get too out of control and misbehave because Saint usually showed up with Royal, and even when Royal was off of patrol she was still a cop and that ht I loved that all these sweet, strong women had invitedout and hooking up They were an aed a their ranks made me feel really acco up at Rome’s bar or the dive that was next to the shop, Cora had ather at a really nice restaurant that was a few blocks over fro shots until we all threw up, we ordered a bunch of appetizers and sipped on fancyher that she was going toto be a dad, a husband, and a homeowner, Rome was all over her to pack up the house they rented and move into a place they would buy She swore up one side and down the other that there wasn’t anything wrong with the rental, Ro more domesticated and settled than he was She rolled her multicolored eyes and insisted that if he proposed out of pure co down his throat
That bold state Cora that she knew for a fact Cora would snatch the ring up so fast Roer That had the tiny blonde laughing and she didn’t deny it
I looked at Saint and lifted an eyebrow at her She and Nash were still pretty new in ter in a committed relationship, but they were obviously very ether
She just shook her head ada her in her face She blushed hotly I knew she was shy and didn’t like being the center of attention, but she couldn’t help but smile when she talked about her sexyood ot my head wrapped around the fact that I have a boyfriend Marriage, kidsnone of that stuff is even on the radar yet I’o back to school and Nash is busy with the business expanding We struggle to ed her with a shoulder and wiggled her eyebrows up and down "You won’t have to work as hard atyou to do"
Saint blushed even harder and glared at her friend
"I’ you back?" As always, it was Cora that had to be all up in everyone’s business
Saint looked away and then sighed and looked back at the group "I don’t want hiet sick of me"
Dead silenceso hard other diners in the restaurant turned to see as going on Once Ayden started, Shaw followed, and soon the entire table was chuckling, rin
Saint chomped down on her lower lip and fiddled with her hair "It’s not that funny"
Royal patted her friend on the shoulder "I told you that you were being ridiculous That boy is sprung on you He would keep you in his pocket if he could"
I nodded in agreereat you are, about how the new shop wouldn’t have gotten off the ground if it wasn’t for you Just go for it You don’t want to look back and realize you wasted time with someone that matters to you"
That of course had all eyes on me, so I picked up the hot-pink drink in front of aze head-on