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“Do you miss New Hampshire?” I ask him

“Yeah… I o back once in a blue moon on vacation, but it’s hard to take tione, it’s not the same”

“I bet,” I say softly as I slide my hand from his shoulder to his neck I stroke my thumb there in commiseration

“What about you?” he asks, and this surprises me While I’m all kinds of nosy because I happen to just like Jerico on a personal basis, I always sort of felt he didn’t need to know anything about me “You’ve told me about Corinne, and yourup here?”

“Well, Vegas is litzy strip I don’t go there very often”

“What about your dad?” Jerico prods

I give a little shrug as I turn aze over Jerico’s shoulder It’s a bit of a sore subject “He took off when I was about two and never came back Left my mom for another woman”

“Jayce’s mom?” Jerico asks so I have to look back to him His eyebrows are furrowed in confusion

I give a sardonic s “My e They had Danielle, but he split before she turned one Mom then met and married Jayce’s dad, Vince, within like six months after her divorce He had Jayce already Jayce was about three years old when Vince s and unstable They had me three years later”

“So you and Jayce share the same father, but you and Danielle share the same mother?” he states for clarification

“I have this whole chart with a colored graph I can show you,” I quip, loving the way his eyes drop to et confused sometime”