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"I’lad she left here before Rory showed up He ht have seen and hurt her"

Zander ski "Probably He’s an asshole that way"

She sifted her fingers through his hair "He never did even one thing good for you in his life?" she asked, sad at the idea Even Hanna, neglectful and selfish though she was, had done the occasional good thing for her

"He gave me a kidney, but my parents had to bribe him to do it"

"Bribe him?"

He nodded "He also tried to make me feel bad about it afterward He still says I stole his kidney He even said it in the attorney’s office" Zander al him comfort "You knohen he told me he’d take from me what’sfor him to take"

She frowned "You have your pack and your ho that’s mine and only mine You are In a sense, he’ll see you as an impostor"

"Impostor?"

"He’s the same ith Jesse and Bracken See, in so to him He doesn’t care about me Doesn’t want me in his life But he doesn’t want others to care aboutabout others He was always jealous of my friendships with Jesse and Bracken, and he’ll be jealous of what I have with you"

"Tough," she snapped

Zander sh"

"Tell me more about your sister You’ve never really talked about her much"

"Remember I told you that I know someone who’d once needed so up for Andie? I was talking about Shelby"

Gwen gaped in horror as he told her about the shootings and how the witnesses had been bullied into silence "No wonder you and Bracken offered to help ers down her face "No I’ it for you I told myself it was for Shelby But it wasn’t Not then, not now"

She sed "Thank you"

"No thanks needed" Zander reached back and yanked the tie out of her hair He gently unraveled the intricate braid, unsurprised by her exasperated sigh

"You need to stop taking outwith it relaxes ed her head back and kissed along her neck

Gwen let her eyes drift closed as he used his lips, tongue, and teeth to devastate her neck "This relaxes you too?" It fired up her libido big-tiue over the mark on her throat "It alsoa fa from inside Zander’s roonore it"