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"The pizza will be here in five," Maverick says from somewhere behind Kode

"I've got the popcorn," Kode says softly, cuppinga second kiss on my forehead

"Popcorn?" I ask, sounding pathetic as o unanswered

After Maverick kisses es the slap on the back of the head by Dane He kneould be co

Dane Sterling The epitos with just the right areen eyes that leave ehteen-year-old to own Add in the fact that he's the enerous person there ever was, and you have no chance of keeping your knees fro

I was born into a screwed-up situation My mother was the other woman; the maid to be exact I was the love child born from a forbidden relationship Myeye And she fell hard, only to realize she was just a victim of the fairytale bullshit she'd believed in

Rich men ives don't fall for the et it out of their systems He sent her money after she quit, and she had me to raise on her own When she died frorandmother had died ten years before that Breast cancer and endoether to steal her life

The only family I had was the bastard who didn't want me

It was his wife, Eleanor, who stepped in to make sure I had a ho I was the proof of her husband's infidelity, though I doubt my mother was the first woman Edward strayed to

Co Shore—the beach town full of rich assholes—was inti with the father that didn't want hter et me started on Ms Perfect

After my new sister started a ruh no one knew the details to my sudden appearance—and Tria wouldn't let that scandal coht Tria told them my mother was a crack-addict, and I was the charity case they took in after I was "found soliciting my body for food"

When I was affronted in the hallways that day, Dane stepped in like the knight he is He told everyone to fuck off or deal with hi with his brother and three cousins, all of which held the prestigious Sterling na temper, no one dared to fuck with him Thank God