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He appeared in the doorway, and I could tell exactly what distracted her about his presence as her gaze heated and ran over him He went to her and wrapped an aret how it’d always felt to be near that one special person, how just her sht me up

I focused my attention on Julian as I watched Pick and Eva kiss out of my peripheral vision He offered me another chunk of banana This ti to check on one ofher phone So, I’ll be out for a couple lanced up, I noticed he was telling ured he’d already shared this neith her, along with the ossiped about

A split second later, I tensed, realizing he was leaving me alone with Eva The idiot hadn’t seen me in six years, and even then, we hadn’t been all that close,acquaintances He knehy I’d been arrested; he knehat I’d done when I was in prison Why the hell was he being stupid enough to allow me to be here with just his woman and two kids?

Eva cleared her throat "Do you want o and talk to her?"

Pick leaned down to kiss the top of her head "Not this time I don’t like her boyfriend and don’t want you to have to deal with him if he’s there"

She narrowed her eyes "I think I can handle--"

"Not on ain, he kissed her full on the ed a set of keys off the wall, and pointed at Julian "Behave for your one, squirt"

"Bye-bye," the boy called and held up a slice of banana to his father

Pick grinned at hiers with his teeth "Musting You know he just slobbered all over that"

"You rin, he descended on her She screaht her and kissed her, anyway

I looked away again, catching Julian’s eye He grinned atto say, they do that all the time