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Kingsley wrinkled his nose Sa about Søren," Kingsley began "He had a bad childhood"
"Didn’t we all?"
"I didn’t," Kingsley said "I had a beautiful childhood My parents were in love with each other, and they adored row up in The City of Light? The City of Love? Nothing bad happened tobad happened to randparents in Maine It was bad I hated irls as possible"
"That’s randparents sent irls to seduce And then I fell in love with a sadist who"
"Who did what?" Sasley had almost said "put me in the infirmary" but decided to keep that part a secret He wasn’t ashaht he and Søren had had sex, that night on the forest floor, had been thesex since age twelve, but in his inity
"A sadist as theI’d ever seen in ht Or lust Hard to tell the difference when you’re sixteen Hard to tell the difference when you’re twenty-eight"
"I have that problem, too"
"Søren and I had sex one ti up the ht of his life in a feords "And then I went home for the suraduated and was teaching We started sleeping together then For the first month of school, it was once a week et enough of each other I’d wait until the students in my dorm were asleep, then I’d sneak out and run for it He’d already be there in the her forbut worth it We had to sneak around even more after my sister, Marie-Laure, came to visit"
"What did you do?"
"Got off caotten a letter from his sister, Elizabeth, and he needed to take care of some family business He asked Marie-Laure to take over his French classes that Friday so he could deal with it"
"That sounds oed sadist in the family is the relative you turn to for help, you know there’s a problem"
Sam winced "Sounds like it What was the probleotten rehter She asked Søren to warn the nehat kind of monster she’d married"
"Dad was bad?"