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Men like Jaers who had a father in prison and a stepfather who should be

Men like Jairls ere polished and cultured, wo Aristocrats who knehich cutlery to use during which course and who never put a high-heeled, designer-clad foot wrong

Aiesha put her hands over the keys, opening and closing them to warm them up Her bruised knuckles protested at the nored them She was used to pain She knew all its forms Physical pain was the easiest to deal with

Emotional pain was the one she had to avoid

‘Are you out of your mind?’ Clifford Challender roared at Ja Bonnie ‘That little slut will ruin your reputation and laugh in your face while she’s doing it’

Ja to his father the truth about his relationship with Aiesha It wasn’t just because of the punch and kiss andto wrap his head around Clifford was not the discreet type The news of his shaement would be all over social ing from the tone of his father’s voice, he suspected he had already sunk a couple of shots and it wasn’t even 10:00 am

‘I keep out of your affairs Please keep out of mine’

‘I blame your mother for this,’ Clifford said ‘She’s always been a sucker for a lairl will take her for another ride Just shohat a stupid fool she is to fall for it a second time’

Jalad his father was close to a thousand kiloive him a black eye to match his own spectacular one He hated the way his father used every opportunity to trash histhe blame off himself In Clifford’sa fuss’ about his occasional affairs

Although James was furious with Aiesha about her ht on the divorce that should have happened years before ‘I’ve already warned you about speaking about Mum like that’