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Lea didn’t say anything as though she was sitting there waiting for him to find the words to explain it to her Why did he keep opening up more and more to her?

Xander sed past the luet this over with as quickly as possible “I was sixteen at the ti into a lot of trouble at school and at ho, I love ht and day She didn’t have to fight for my parents’ attention”

He searched his nant day that altered the course of his life “I had just gotten my driver’s license and I wanted my own motorcycle, but my father said if I wanted one, I had to earn it I also had to pay my own insurance”

“Dare I say it sounds reasonable? You know, teaching a child responsibility”

“It would have been if the conversation had stopped there” He took coled with his He rubbed his thumb over the back of her hand Her skin was so s

“You don’t have to tell me if it’s too painful”

Those words were like a challenge to hi”

“Didn’t we all at that age?”

“It was during one of our argu point He turned on me and said I wasn’t his son” Xander had never admitted that to anyone, ever Not even to his sister “My father toldschool would put more structure in my life That hen I told hiain At which point he said unless I changed my attitude not to co he’d let the conversation get too serious, he said, “I bet you were the perfect daughter”

Lea was quiet for a h school with a few tattoos and a big bad attitude that et into it about hiuy was picked up for breaking and entering, I’ument”

Xander knew she was trying to make him feel better and he appreciated the effort But there was more He drew in an unsteady breath