grandfather Alphons's voice was sharp with
?" I i
ny of them would be honored.
mind. The most successful of the five, an
randpa.
e is yours, swe
idn't realize I'd been
oing to erase him. And I was going to use th
ing room. He came up behind me and wrapped his arms around my wa
thing," he murm
thin and cheap, the kind you get from a
ng for gentle but failing. "I'll overlook the lies y
a word. There was no point. H
tomorrow," he said, changing the subject. "But her mother
grip on me. "So
n't a
my partner
heart condition, Holden. You know that. T
o. I'd ended up in the emergency room with heart palpita
punishing me for questioning him, for not being gr
t," I said, m
ardened, the brief moment of fake gentleness
ld get violent.
ft the room. I thought
s wr
was weak from grief and lack of sleep. He threw me into his car
asoline and cheap beer. A crowd of pe
e car and toward a mon
t his girl!" s
slurred, his eyes raking over me. "How mu
by the starting line, looking delicate and worried. He'd done t
off his leather jacket, and
ft and full of a tenderness he never
in his hands and
orn from my chest. All the love, all the care, all the protection
a placehold
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