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She put her hand over the top of e of her fingernail It was a barely-there caress, but I felt it all the way through my body

“You look like the kind of guy that would have soft, h”

I had a wicked scar on the back of one hand fro from the cops My middle knuckle on one hand had been broken soand off-center There were nuhts and different altercations, ht for my life when Novak had sent his crew in to kill me

“You look like a girl who should get to enjoy a night out with an interested boy and not have to rush home to take care of her sister”

She cut me a look and sat back in the seat with a little humph

“I guess looks can be deceiving”

“Why don’t you give me the CliffsNotes version of what that’s all about?”

She didn’t want to, I could see it Giving ed ere about to do fro else Turned it into so with more depth, and she wasn’t ready for that Still, after a heartbeat, she breathed out a long sigh and turned to look at me

“I was just a typical college student the year before last I went to class, partied a little too hard, just did led with depression on and off for most ofreally bad happened last year and she went off the rails She quit taking everything prescribed to her and started drinking really heavily I didn’t knoas happening My dad is a workaholic, spends all his time in the office at work, and the one at hoets he even has a family”

She made a noise under her breath and I wanted to pull the car over and give her a hug

“Well, one day Mom went out, I think to pick Karsen,all day with vodka and was shit-faced She caused a hway, hurt herself really bad, and rear-ended a family in an SUV in front of her She hit the other car so hard that it s in front of it The mom and the son made it out alive, but the dad died It was terrible Mo time and ended up with all kinds of et out of having her BAC taken, either because the cops were distracted or becausesaddled with a DUI and her insurance covered the bulk of the bills, but not all of the I knee couldn’t afford ht sure she went to school, or had any food in the house or that the bills for the lights or the heat were getting paid”

She shook her silky blond head and I could see frustration and harder eht be all frosty and cool on the surface, but underneath a torrent was raging It made me want her even more

“I wasn’t going to quit school, not when I was so close to being done, so I got a job and took a few loans to get through the last few seether as h school One ether for one more year, but in the meantime, my mom has added all kinds of painkillers to the booze and my dad is even less present than he was before I never really knohat kind of situation I’et to my own front door, and that sucks I deserve better andto ask for any of what has happened to our family”

I wheeled the Mustang into the co closed behind us The security lights flickered on overhead, casting her in an ethereal, bluish glow Everything about her was refined and pure looking God, I wanted to mess her up I wanted my hands in her hair, my marks on her skin, and h as she made me feel on the inside No one had ever riled etting without having to ask, and Brysen never offered that toto be, and her answers often surprised e of that made her even more desirable

“The lengths we go to in order to keep our fahty burden to bear” I got out of the car and went around to let her out of the passenger side When I pulled her up, I pressed her back into the side of the car with the full length of ly over the plue of hers