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“You release me?” she asked
“Yes I want you to be here with me”
Now that made her … happier “You don’t want me to leave?”
She watched Dawg look away, and she saw the control he was showing her “I don’t want you to leave, Lori”
Biting her lip, she tried not to smile
Pushing herself up and out of the water, she grabbed his jacket and yanked him into the pool
He broke the surface and she giggled, wrapping her aruards could see them
“Well, then you’re going to have to get used to having htly “I don’t want to leave”
His hands gripped her ass, and he held her tightly
“You’re going to stay?”
“Well, besides the fact I’ve got nowhere else to go, there’s also the little probleo anywhere else I happen to like you, Mr Hampshire” She pulled his head down for a kiss
The moment his lips touched hers, she felt like all of her worries had finally left her She only ever needed to worry about him
“I’ll take care of you, Lori,” he said
“I still want to work” She whispered the words against his lips “I’m not a kept woman”
“I didn’t expect anything else You work for your keep Be careful, I’ll start taking rent from you”
She giggled
“Did he upset you?” Dawg asked
She kept her aro “Yes and no”
“Do you want me to kill him?” he asked
Lori shook her head “No, not kill him At least not yet” She chuckled “He’s stillto do with him”
“That’s fine I’e you”
She looked at his neck, his pulse slowly beating against it “When I needed hiuy”
“He’s still your father, and even e have shitty ones, we still need it”
“Did you love your dad?” she asked “You don’t talk about your parents”
“They both were killed Erm, it’s hard to really say My mom was fantastic She hated this life, but she dealt with it, and she always did it like she was royalty Always had her head held high, and never let anyone tell her she rong or anything My dad is difficult to say He had to h There were ti, ready to take over, but he did it He had no choice”
“You look so sad”
“I don’t knohat I’ll do when I have a son This life, it’s not for the faint-hearted”