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Seething, I bit out a little louder, "Thank you" I sucked in a breath and added in a less angry voice, "It was really decent of you to help me out I’m sorry if I caused you any inconvenience"

"Inconvenience," he

"Would you please take me home now?"

"Not a problem I live to help spoiled little Greenwich princesses"

The way he looked at me said it all He didn’t think veryme At least superficially And face it, that’s as et to the realthey ever tried Most were content with si, can you tell et on with s to do"

I bristled So he thought I led a charuys by licking them and then passed out like a pathetic drunk My face burned I guess he wasn’t that wrong Excepthiht of o I don’t want to keep you fros you have to dolike plan the next criain, and I realized he was enjoying this Me baiting hie place without any clothes on had subsided, I realized I maybe enjoyed it, too

"Sure And you don’t want to miss your nail appointment"

I cocked my head "That’s tomorrow"

The sound of his chuckle followed me as I turned and walked off the porch His truck was unlocked--ouldn’t it be all the way out here in the er door and hopped inside

He cliine We sat there for a few moments as it war at the peacefulness of it I wouldn’t have pictured a place like this as his home It wasnice Which eird He was a biker Soe A stereotype, I knew, but it wasn’t as though he wasn’t stereotyping ?"

"It was o and left it toaround ed beside taunts, and frankly, it made me uncomfortable But then he made me uncomfortable Undeniably From the first moment I saw hi They had been close The man had left hirandfather"

He put the truck in reverse and backed out of the property "He went fishing with a friend, came in, made a sandwich, laid down for a nap, and never woke up He was eighty-nine We should all be so lucky"

I blinked against the illogical burn that suddenly pressed againstline of his profile, I wondered atthe love in his voice for this randfather had obviously cared for him I wished I had that I wished I had someone Honestly, there was no family member who overly cared whether I lived or died No one inbad happened to me