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"Drunk driver plowed into aze dropped to his eht before looking back up, a worried anxiety turning his whiskey-colored eyes darker "My stepfather died My s There was surgery, immobility and then physical therapy Now she's almost one-hundred percent, which un to go out, find randbabies" He finished with a grin that did nothing to eliminate the worry lines carved into his forehead

"Are you the only child?"

"I'm in the middle of six and the only boy None of us areher crazier than skillet full of rattlesnakes" This time his smile reached all the way to his eyes

"Where are you sisters?" Again she broke the dating rules and moved the conversation beyond her date and his many impressive accomplishments

Isaac didn't seem to care His whole body relaxed "They're scattered from here to Alaska There's Ariella, who flies tourists around in Alaska Meira and Dalia—forever known as The Twins—run a dude ranch in Montana Leah just opened up a business selling pot in Colorado The baby, Shoshana, is about to get her Masters in architecture"

The pride he had in his close-knit faret squeezed her lungs tighter with each breath It hurt deep in that part of herself she blocked out as much as possible, so she did what she always did She plastered a pageant-worthy smile on her face and kept the focus off herself

"I' up with sisters"

"I can do a double French braid in less than three ht more tampons than a thirty-one-year-old man should ever admit to"

Just the ht jeans and rocery store short-wired her brain

"So what about you?" he asked

"It was just my mom, Amelia and me" She scrambled for another question to ask about him to return the conversation back to proper lane but her brain wasn't cooperating

"That's it?" he asked,stories? Co tampons If Lash ever found out, I'd never hear the end of it, and eventually, I'd end up with a truck covered in taoods"

Shoved mentally off balance by his de out the first thing to pop in head “I stuffed ot boobs"

His focus dipped to her breasts before lifting back up and shaking his head "Nope Not good enough"

Secrets? Oh no She wasn't about to spill those E information? Thethey were still et any worse than that? She rubbed her temple, the same spot where—