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Wondered what it would be like if he could scrub the dirt fro had happened

But it wasn’t possible

He shrugged “That’s the way the world works, Julia The man with the money holds the power, or in your case, the woave a da on the streets?”

She shook her head “I’m sure they didn’t otherwise…you wouldn’t have been on the street, would you?”

“No one cared when ive anyone She only had a son, a son no one wanted to look after A boy who fell through the cracks”

“How did you survive?” she asked

“For a while? The church I lived there for a few years, went to the school the nuns ran But after a while there wasn’t enough ain”

“I suppose thatmen sound a little silly”

She looked away, her expression sad He should compliment her She’d just fed him the best information, told hi hiainst her A chance to fore later After he took down Hamlin When it was time to take Anfalas, and Julia, out, too He could use this in conjunction with information already in place All he had to do was use it

But he didn’t And he wasn’t sure why

Perhaps because she was honest Her words weren’t designed toof herself, and no one had ever done that with him before No one had ever made him want to share his past before Just now, he’d told her more than he’d ever told anyone else before

Again, he felt that strange sort of war at his veins

“Are you hungry?” he asked

She turned to face him “Uh…sure?”

“Good Let’s go find so for dinner”

“O-okay Just leton other than this”

He nodded, and suddenly, he was assaulted by an i those leather pants from her body The flames burned hotter