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She threwher arms across her chest "Because of uarantee that"

"I heard your dad is a nice guy Adam likes him, anyway"

"Everybody orks with my dad likes him He’s a hard-ass, but he cares about his people His work people are ed, glancing out the side

"Than his own family?"

"He has one of those, too A shiny new family"

I blinked "And where do you fit in?"

"I don’t"

I looked at her and saw that her features were completely blank Frouy had collected for enerous She drove a coner clothes and lived in a condo paid for and furnished by him But she didn’t seem the spoiled rotten type--at least what I knew of her

"He’s not a bad person at all He just…I just…We just don’t get each other, I guess"

"That sounds familiar"

She cocked a head at ies?"

I let out a breath "Let’s just say I’ he could to raise a young version of hiot me instead"

"So that’s why he’s so pissed at you? Because you grew up to becoe of guilt that she had jumped to that conclusion--with my help--when that wasn’t exactly the case

"Some of it is justified and some of it is his bullshit I lied to hie lie?"