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“He’s justyou know, old I mean, your mom and dad are what, thirty-two?”

“Thirty-three and four,” Lia of chips

“And

my dad is sixty,” Ee in Nowhere, Guatemala He thinks different”

“He hates love,” Liam joked

“No, he just hates sex if it involves his daughter”

“We’re always careful I mean, all rubbered up, sir!” He snapped a salute

“Oh, good, you can tellprotection Just be ready to outrun a bullet”

Liam fed her a chip She tried to crunch it in some sensual, provocative way, but hed and Liaathered her to him

“I love you,” he said

“I love you, too”

“No,” Liam insisted, his voice heavy with emotion “I don’t mean like a throay line I mean that I think about you every hour of every day I see you every tiether because I want to be able to s eht have been a little creepy”

“Not even a little creepy,” she said, her own voice husky “And I love you that same way Desperate love You know? Like sometimes it just kind of wells up, and for a few seconds I can’t breathe or s”

Suddenly angry, Liaet past this We have to be together I o to your dad and say, ‘Look, Mr Aguilar, Emma and I love each other, and I know you still think about o, all right? Let it go’”

“Mmmm That will so not work”