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“It’s not about her looks,” Gabrielle interrupted, with a sound reseeous, too Not an obvious showstopper like Marie But irl he went for He wasman
“What is it with men?” Marie’s derisive tone wasn’t directed at him, but
he sure felt as if it was And took the brunt of her watery brown-eyed glare for all men “Why can’t they be trustworthy?”
“They can be” Of that he was sure Which hy his father’s actions earlier that day had upset him so much
“I sure didn’t see that tonight Nor a good part of the ti up”
Her father, who’d been unfaithful to her mother in the past and who’d only a few years earlier been brought back into the family fold, had been with another woirls had been the ones to discover him there From what Gabrielle had told him, Marie had taken it pretty hard
“And Brad, freshuy Gabi had dated who’d broken up with her when she wouldn’t sleep with him
“Jione to a rodeo the year before He’d played one for the other and gotten caught in the middle For a day or two there, Liaht break up a friendship he’d considered unbreakable But the girls had surprised hi hiuy hadn’t seen as co
“Don’t forget Mark,” Marie said She’d dated hi of sophomore year Until she’d found out that he had a fiancée at home in Phoenix
“All right, already,” Lia up a hand in surrender
“It’s like guys’ drive for sex is stronger than their hearts Or their morals,” Marie added
“It’s a driving force,” Lia seat beneath the girls They were fa “The desire to have sex o he could give his friends was an honesty they probably wouldn’t get anywhere else “It doesn’t irl—you can’t help reacting when you see a beautiful wo on that feeling are two entirely different things”
“So when you were going with Karen last year, you were still attracted to other women?”
“Of course!” His honesty was going to help Marie see that this had nothing to do with her Needing to do what he could to erase the hurt froroo I don’t knohat it was about her, but she did it to me every time I just had to see someone that reminded me of her and”
“Did you ever come on to her?”