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“And what’s your father’s—Lynn’s—end of the story?” she asked

I sighed

“Well” I paused “Froo all that well, either When he knocked my mom up, she didn’t tell Lynn, and her and ether to hide it from Lynn Lynn didn’t find out he even had a kid on the way until I was already given up for adoption By the time he even found me—his father had a lot of money, by the way He was able to hide reat with the foster hoood at hiding it by that point If I brought attention to the fact that I was beaten and hurt, then shit always sucked worse when things returned back to nors really well”

She looked at me “You seemed to show your fear okay the day that I was shot”

I thought about that for a moment

“It’s probably because you’re a girl,” I admitted

She snorted, her steps faltering a bit as she caround

I steered us into the opposite direction that we’d headed in and turned us so that ere facing the cabin again

We hadn’t gone far at all

Maybe a couple hundred yards or so

Surprisingly, Al stayed right withclose enough that not once did his leash tug

He knew just how far to go to be almost too far for me to correct

She tripped again, and I knew I’daround

“Ready to head back?” I asked

She didn’t argue, which leton a brave face

“Shoulder okay?” I asked,

“Are you asking because I’ me a small smile “Would you ask your buddy this?”

I thought about that for a long moment before I answered “I would ask if he was okay, then I’d take hi what they mean, so I wouldn’t knohether to trust you or not”

She snickered atThor was an absolute nightmare I swear, like you said, so a wo he was If it wasn’t for Harlow and Trent, I wouldn’t have even stuck it out as long as I did”

We were at the house when I told her to go inside, which she did without complaint

CHAPTER 9

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