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“Okay, but it didn’t,” I say reasonably “And I don’t think you did anything wrong They swung at you first and you didn’t hit Brad, you just warned hi a bit hard on yourself…What did you do to get arrested before?”

“It was after my parents were killed in that crash,” he says disrief see all the tiuy push his girlfriend, and I just saw red I threw him over the bar They called the cops and I was arrested It was all over the papers when they realized I was a CEO… it was horrendously e at work”

He’s looking down at his hands, as though he is waiting forI shake my head

“Alex, I get that ain, you were protecting someone You’ve done your sentence”

Alex looks up and his eyes are shining with such raw emotion that it takes my breath away I’ve never seen him look so vulnerable

“I thought it would…well, put you off me”

“Not at all,” I whisper, leaning forward to kiss hiether in a kiss that is somehow both passionate and tender, and as he pulls hs and sit across his lap

“I don’t think anything could put me off you,” I whisper

“You’re not angry I didn’t tell you before?”

I shrug “I’ to stand on with that I did let you kissthat you didn’t have a clue who I was I would say we’re pretty even now”

He grins at me

“Good point”

“Does Dad know?”

He nods

“Sure He’s been a good friend throughout it all…another reason I don’t want to upset hi he knows that I wouldn’t do this unless I was completely serious about you, which I am”

“I reckon he’ll come round,” I muse “He couldn’t pick a better man for me himself”

Alex laughs and pulls s

It’s my father

Chapter Twelve

Alex

Jenny looks at me ide eyes as she picks up her phone to answer the call I wonder how far away Jeff is, and steel myself for the difficult conversation we are about to have Part of ht, as I feel like I run the risk of losing her as soon as Jeff finds out But I want to do this properly, like a man should I’m a man who knohat he wants and I want Jenny