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“You have a good eye, and I need son I’ll make sure we schedule it so you aren’t too et thener every moment”

April scra to say, but she could only feel herself burning again, like she ht torch the chair around her For ht this very kind of attention She wanted someone who valued her, looked at her as hile and coe that it would come now, from a man like this, who she had all but swatted away from her

“I would like that a lot I moved around a lot as a kid, but I can’t say that I’ve been anywhere special,” April admitted “Even if it is just for business, it would be different”

“You moved around, where? Was your family in the military?”

“No” April felt her stoain The scent of ginger seemed oppressive as she considered hoord this He’d been pressing for more details about her life ever since her interview It was surprising that he hadn’t just had soet him a file full of information on her

“I grew up in foster care I don’t really have a family”

Samson’s eyes softened “Really”

“I was dropped off at a hospital Probably my family didn’t wantusually get adopted, but the doctors found a heart defect and had to giveto me now—the scar is barely visible—but then it basically er, and people don’t want to adopt defective babies” April shrugged “Or maybe they do, but they didn’t want me So I ended up in the systee”

“I see That must have been very difficult for you”

April covered her lips, but a giggle escaped

“Did I say so funny?”

“No, it’s just… It’s odd to see you fumble for words I feel like that’s usually how everyone else acts around you, right?

“I just wasn’t expecting that kind of story froenerally tend to be”

“Losers? Dae down before I even entered the system”

“That isn’t what I meant”