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Screalked over to her, gently taking her tear-stained face between his hands “I’ awe of you, Jazmine”

She snorted “You really are crazy”

“No,” he said, so serious, Jazz’s eyes widened “I’ve known you were gorgeous from the moment I laid eyes on you I knew you were funny the first ti I knew you were compassionate when you offered to babysit Beth that time Shell was in a jaht in to help I knew you were sweet the first tiuys at the clubhouse And I knew you were selfless when I watched you wink at a customer who couldn’t pay their bill as you told them it was covered The h your tip money to take care of their check”

None of this surprised Gumby He’d known for years the kind of person Jazz was They were all reasons he’d pursued her Her face was bright red and adorable as she listened to Screw extol her virtues

“But I had no idea the core of steel that lay beneath this beautiful exterior And I’m in complete awe of it”

“I’h gutted Gu it’s not even funny”

“Bullshit,” Guan to bubble to the surface “Is that how you see yourself? As ugly and weak? Because if so, the only probleht”

Jazz frowned as silent tears streamed from her red rimmed eyes “It’s what I know Not how I see ave him the saddest smile “I-I haven’t been able to look at myself without clothes in a year and a half”

And if that wasn’t thehe’d ever heard, he didn’t knoas

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

JAZZ HAD NEVER felt fatigue like she did just then This deep, emotional exhaustion that consumed her and made her want to sleep until the memories disappeared

But they’d never leave her Noshe slept, that horrible night would always be a part of her

She treazes of the , she’d feared soht of her scars, find out what had happened to her, and she’d be forced to ad tale