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In a heartbeat, his face transfor concern “There’s no need to worry your pretty little head about suchdown that road in a rainstorers setting off an unsettling swirling sensation in her stoet the”
With that, he pivoted and stor in his arms howled in protest as Mateo marched down the hill, surefooted and i rain or the wounded woman left in his wake
Chapter Three
Olivia closed the thick oak front door and knocked her forehead against it three ti to pound the last fewelse in her life right now, it didn’t work She couldn’t stop seeing the millisecond of hurt that flashed in Mateo’s hazel eyes before the eret and shah her like battery acid
“You are a total ass” Miranda echoed the words ringing in Olivia’s ears
Olivia spun on her heel to face her older sister “Thanks, oh wise one, I hadn’t figured that out yet”
They may be only minutes apart in birth order, but Miranda had always been the Type A leader, insisting her as the only way to get so to, Olivia slipped back into the role she’d always played when they were growing up: rebellious smartass
Logan and Sean, obviously sensing a Sweet triplets brouhaha on tap, srossed in Uncle Julian’s erotic sci-fi book collection
Natalie, ever the middle-child peacemaker, stepped forward to join the fray “She was just shocked It wasn’t like she s”
She hadn’t, but the end result was that Olivia had made him feel like shit, even if he wouldn’t show that to the world She couldn’t let that stand Even after he’d squashed her heart under his steel-toed boot, he deserved better than her moronic, unfiltered reaction
“I’m sure the fa
ct that I didn’t mean to be a total bitch really rabbed a pair of rubber boots and shoved her bare feet inside the fake-fur-lined interior “I need to go help move the car It’s the least I can do”
Natalie scrunched her nose, dislodging her glasses and forcing her to push theht now”
Wasn’t that the story of her life? The town of Salvation didn’t want the crazy Sweet farown up here anyway and spit in the eye of anyone who gave her a cross look Thebecause her voluptuous curves didn’t fit with the stick-thin catwalk one so far as to call a picture of her standing in a bikini “vulgar” because she had big boobs Internet commentators had called her fat and there were entire thinspiration boards devoted to detailing her supposed faults She’d refused to back down and had become one of the top-paid models in the industry before the newness wore off and the pendulu, lanky, thin models Then she’d decided to explore the corporate world She’d retired fro specialist, found a non-industry boyfriend and rescued the world’s meanest cat from a kill shelter
Okay, that last one hadn’t turned out so well since she was now broke, ho naked photos of her to revenge-porn websites