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"So you do knowher

"Why are you here?"

I looked around, and back on the trail I’d coht past my backyard Why are you here? Shouldn’t you be at work or soround, and she licked her lips like she was nervous "My uh--­my office shuts down every first and third Friday of thefor a local coround for a second "I should probably go"

Not looking away from her, I nodded my head in the direction of the play equipan’s entire body froze, and the hand that had been brushing back her long hair stopped mid-­action "Who told you I have a son?" her voice was now careful and defensive

"Your brother Look, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you"

"Keegan," she grumbled, but her body relaxed "It’s fine, I just didn’t know you knew I should have figured since you used to be roommatesI just--­I don’t--­"

"You don’t let a lot of ­people into your son’s life, I know I don’t blame you"

Her eyes had hardened at first, but widened with my last statement "I don’t knohether to be pissed that you know all this aboutthe shirt fro at my side, I ran it over my face and chest, and noticed her eyes followed the path They lingered on the tattoos on ave nothing away; for all I knew, they could disgust her

"In all fairness to your brother," I started, and her eyes snapped back up toabout you or your son until the day I got out All I’d knoas he was always going back home to be with the two of you I finally asked him"

"And what all did he tell you?" The defensive tone was back, and I fought a sot all protective

"Not th"