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Sex was nothing new to ht I had seen and done it all I ether But every single ti brand new Every touch, every kiss, every breathless sigh or guttural groan, every shiasm, the kind that made my spine feel like it would snap in half fro a hard ti what thatbetween us felt the same to her It was just another bunch of firsts I could attribute to the raven-haired beauty

I alking out the front door and double-checking that it was locked behind me since the shop was closed Sunday and Monday when a soft fe late?"

I looked over rin to Sayer as I recognized her in all of her elegantly cool glory--even at alal and refined She looked like she had just left high tea or court

"Yep You, too?"

I had no probleain I felt like she was standing on the sidewalk in front of the shop specifically forinto the pretty lawyer once or thile getting coffee and she seereed

She shook her head in the negative "No I was actually headed this way and noticed you were still working and I finally worked up the courage to approach you for the real reason I’ve been lurking around I aiting for you to finish your appoint you had a free rab a coffee or a drink?"

I blinked at her in shock First, I had serious doubts I was even slightly her type if her reaction to being in the shop the first tio by Second, she knew Sale on between the two of us, and if she was ignoring that, then all the class she exuded had to be for show Third, I didn’t think I wanted to have anything to do with her real reason for se soenerally had htly dumbfounded by her and the ain "Not a date, Rowdy Not even close" She heaved a deep sigh and I saw so in her very blue eyes Her hands clenched into fists at her sides and she nervously shifted her weight from foot to foot She blurted out like the words had been trapped inside of her for a long time, "I’m your sisterwell, half sister, but still we’re related"

All I could do was stare at her while she stared back atFinally, after what felt like five solid hed so hard tears collected in my eyes and my ab muscles started to hurt It took me another minute to catch my breath and I told her, "That’s a fked-up joke, lady I don’t knohat kind of ga at but it isn’t funny, and I am beyond not interested"

I went to walk around her when she stuck out a manicured hand and latched on to my elbow

"I’m serious, Rowdy My dad--our dad--passed away last year fro his ith the estate lahen I was stunned to realize he wantedin half with someone I had never heard of beforehis son" Her eyes were pleading with me "You"

I shook her off and took a step away fro mind, but as I narrowed my eyes at her I couldn’t help but notice her eyes looked awfully similar to the ones that stared back atht now" I had spent my entire life alone I had been thrown into an overcrowded system because there was no fa to tellwith my blood in their veins I couldn’t believe it--or her

"He was married to my mom when you were born" She bit her lip so hard a bead of blood pooled up under the pressure "He was a very hard man with a lot of secrets It took months to track you down Texas has far too many children in the systeure out a way to tell you I actually pictured it going exactly like this Whenhere and settling in would give ure out a way to approach you and get to know you I just kept chickening out"

I shovedup the slicked-back style and causing the blond strands to stick up all over the place

"This is crazy You’re crazy I don’t need to listen to this"

I turned my back on her and started to walk ahen her sad voice stopped rew up in a sterile household that never saw an ounce of joy or love My er because she had had enough of htless ways I can’t tell you how many hours, how many times in my bleak and endless days, I wished for a little brother or sister I used to dream about you, Rowdy"

She sounded really sad but she also sounded really insane I didn’t want anything to do with someone that had knoas out there on my own and had left me to fend for hter was here in his stead