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It one doith his father in that childhood hoe he’d caused that faht If Nate was that affected, I wondered what hisand self-assured, Nate’s limpses of Nate’s brother, Luke, and now as I put the whole of it together, I got why Nate had called him a prick You hear about the cycle of abuse and his brother unfortunately ht be evidence of that He was cocky with an al froe

Now I tuned into the other photos The after shots The ones I took of Nate up on the railroad bridge, after spending the night wrapped in his arms To me, the evidence was plain in his eyes He looked different--relaxed, content, free

I wondered if he’d ever be able to see that in hies had hts of himself, which made this way co everything

But I kneithout a shred of doubt that there were insurht then I’d decided on so important I needed to do

After the darkrooreeted by Cory alking his client out the door

"Hoas your weekend away, Jess?" he said, turning to ee juasp He never shared details of his weekends witharound, but his comment had hit too close to home

I rolled led her eyebrows

I laid down ed froe concealing her wrist and a set of dreamy eyes that plenty of Bennett’s female custoood at ignoring it Avery didn’t kno lucky she had it

E the customer out while I pulled off ood?"

"Yep"

"Nate show you all the right places?"

Oh, he showed ot soet tired of everyone’s questions by the end ofco-workers that felt like faes"

He nodded "He said your car got a flat?"

Eed," I said, surprised Bennett had that information "It would’ve sucked had he not been with ive you a play-by-play?" I tried to not to make my voice sound strained

"No That was it," Bennett said and I blew out a breath "Why, is there so else I should know?"

Just then Avery walked in with her blue scrubs, and savedhim She was on rotation at the university hospital and whenever she and Bennett finished work at the saether

Bennett slid his arave her a quick but inti in her ear and she giggled