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“When he was ten, the librarian at his school, who brought him cookies every day and always saved hio because the school board said they didn’t have the budget to keep a full-time librarian Mrs Haas in her seventies, but she loved those kids, and ether and then got different businesses in town to pledge funds and donate to the cause Mrs Hawks didn’t lose her job In fact, he collected so ot a raise

“When he was nineteen, he found out his little sister had gotten her heart broken at school by a boy who only cared about who her daddy was He asked o That boy who broke his little sister’s heart found his truck just out of town, completely immersed in water”

She stopped and chuckled “Mase Colt Manning fights for those he loves It’s what he does And I know he tried to fight for you He wanted to conquer your battles And from the little research I’ve done, I found out he sends a monthly check to a Dr Astor Munroe that costs ets weekly reports fro your battles Whichwhen he does anything And when he decided to fall in love, he did it in a massive way”

She stopped and pointed her finger at aze she leveled on me How had I not seen it before?

“He needs soht for him now Because he’s lost hih life with no joy, because he tells me he left it with his heart He left it with you So if you love hiht for hiht his battle”

A drop fell on my arm, and I reached up to feelin pain listening to Mase’s mother tell me how he needed me He was hurt because of me

I didn’t care anymore about the text Or the other woht whoever the hell Cordelia was, too I would fight until I couldn’t fight anymore

“Where is he?” I asked

“He’s at hoone to visit my sister in San Antonio”

“How do I get to him? Where is his home?”

A sht to him”

I closed the lid on the cooler “Let o”

“I’ out her hand for me to shake “And it is a pleasure to meet the woman my son loves I orried, but I can see he chose well”

Her approval sent the first warh me that I’d felt in ten weeks, two days, and five hours

Mase

“OK, I’ me alive,” Major said, as he stepped into the barn with a saddle thrown over his shoulder

I continued rubbing down et the stallion’s stall cleaned out next, and I didn’t have time to deal with Major and his drama

“I’ her for like twomy dick Sorry, but I’m a man, and she came on to me, and I let her blow me Then I turned her over the sawhorse and fucked her It was a weakthese cutoff jeans shorts that showed part of her ass and a little top that barely covered her tits She’s hot,her, and you didn’t answer I figured it meant she didn’t matter”

That hy Cordelia had leftMajoryou well” I patted Kryptonite, then turned to lead him over to the stall I’d already cleaned

“So you don’t care that I’ that ass?” he asked

“You didno for an answer”