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“Your ry hunter She was an adventurous woman, your mother So, her sweet eyes, the same color as yours, they were filled with both wariness and attraction She wanted to tame the lion, but wasn’t sure I could be tamed”

“You were a playboy?”

“No Like Sandor, I was a business ht, when I h orked side by side for years, I’d already als”

“Did you love her?”

“Very much”

So inside Ellie cracked at that assurance He had loved once

“How did she die?” She’d always known herbirth, but there’d been an accident, too She’d never asked for details because, well…that wasn’t the kind of thing she asked her dad and there’d been no one else

“She was in a car accident It was bad She went into preirls and then slipped into a co birth”

“I’m sorry”

“I aood for you I didn’t raise you the way she would have wanted me to I failed her and you both…just like I failed your sister I fight for every business concession I want, but I was too weak to fight past the pain of her loss”

“Failure is not a terminal disease unless you allow it to be,” Hera said froly practical

George’s head snapped up and heto irls Somehow Someway”

Hera nodded “That is an admirable sentiment, but it will not be easy”

“I know”

“If it becoain, you will not get another chance Your daughter is very self-sufficient”