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“You’re acting freaked Slaer with his first car”

“I assure you, I did not peel rubber at any stoplights”

“Do teens still do that?”

“Some” He never had

It would have not been fitting for a prince

“I said yes, Demyan” She laid her hands on his chest, her eyes soft with emotion

His ar her into his embrace “Why?”

Her agreeh, but he needed to know

“Mythis powerful just because it scares me”

“Yourthat one hard to take in

“Yes She wants to try again, on our relationship”

“She does realize you are twenty-nine, not nineteen?”

Chanel s in the storm-cloud depths of her eyes “We both do It’s not happy fa to meet her partway”

“You’re aperson than I am”

“I’ bitterness and anger inside hurts me more than anyone who has ever hurt me”

A cold wind blew across his soul Demyan hoped she rereat-great-grandfather’s will

She frowned up at hilasses?”

“I don’t need them to drive” He didn’t need the to break that news to her

“You alear them, except in bed”

“They’re not that corrective” Were in fact just clear plastic

“They’re a crutch for you,” she said with that analytical look she got sometimes

“You could say that”