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“What happened to your mom?” I asked

“She moved in with the fucker I nearly killed They found her body in the river a few months later Ruled it an accident – said she was drunk and fell into the water or souy she ith died about adrunk and ran his car into a tree When I got out, I was sent here to Arkansas to live with reat-aunt” He looked around the room “This was her house She left it to me when she passed a couple years later”

“I’m sorry, Cash,” I whispered

He shrugged “I got off easy,” he said quietly as he looked down at Sage

I wasn’t so sure he had, but I didn’t say that

“Daisy,” he murmured

I looked up to find he was looking at me

“Why us?” he asked gently “Why did you want to stay with us instead of Ronan?”

I felt et knocked out ofthe shooting in my apartment

I could have lied and spouted some bullshit about how I felt safer with the that would cheapen what Cash had done He’d held nothing back He’d exposed his and Sage’s pasts, even though he’d been under no obligation to do so He’d accepted e’s dyna to me that wasn’t any of my business in the first place

My fingers were resting on Cash’s When I didn’t respond, he didn’t pressure me, but he did move his thumb so he could brush it back and forth overthat was cold inside of h skin, I began to feel warm

I began to feel like I was exactly where I was supposed to be