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"Oh, good, they’re all gonna be here today? I need to catch up with them I haven’t seen any of them in years"

Well Fuck Me

"So how do you two know each other?" Regina asked, srew up in the sahborhood," Ro awith enthusiasm "I knew you were in the Marines, but even when she told me Gina’s new boyfriend’s nained it was the same one This is some crazy shit" Romero turned toward the back door then back to Brandon and pointed with his thuht? That’s Alex and his brood there Reh school? After all their drahed "Those two are married now They all are, and" He stopped and see his fist to his reatest back then, huh?"

Regina and Brandon exchanged glances; then Roo Soree, but I think we’ve all ina laugh "Yeah an to protest, there was an outbreak of laughter, wheezing, and snorting co lie!" His uncle was saying to Regina’s sister Patricia, pointing at the other guy at the table "Just ask him Tell ’er, Max And don’t leave shit out"

"Hey!" Romero called out loudly with a frown His uncles both looked up at hie There’s a bunch of kids around!"

"Not to mention ladies," her sister Patricia added with a raised brow and a s around as aniain

Roina "Okay,distracted her "I stillin the direction of the driveith the smile "They all look so much alike Which one is that one?"

Both Brandon and Roel," Roain as if frozen in tiel waved but motioned he’d be over in a bit Both he and his wife, who Brandon reirl froina’sValerie who’d resurfaced frohthtetting punked

"They’re gonna trip out when they find out you’re Gina’s new --obviously oblivious as to as unfolding before her eyes

Brandon turned in tiotta know the history We all go way back"

It had just dawned on Brandon that since he realized who Regina’s brother-in-laas and that he’d shortly be reunited with the last family on earth he ever wanted to be reunited with he hadn’t uttered a single word--he’d gone ina said "That’s their sister, right?"

Sing hard, Brandon didn’t even want to look He kept his eyes on Roina was focused on--the driveway "Yep, that’s Sof" He turned back to Brandon with an evil grin "Betcha re his insides warm by the second, Brandon knew there was a choice to be ina, who he could feel staring at hi this day--this whole fking situation--could be salvaged somehow, he chose the latter and turned in the direction of the driveway

Sofie was addressing the little girl whose hand she was holding Eric walked up next to her, holding a sleeping baby against his shoulder and was quicklya better look at the baby The little girl had the sa Brandon’s eyes for a second before looking down at the little girl again Not a second later, her head jerked up, and their eyes locked

Chapter Twenty

Regina

Betcha remember her, huh, Brandon?

It wasn’t so much Romero’s question as it was Brandon’s reaction to it that had Regina slowly co moment he and Sofia shared when they first saw each other hadn’t been enough to ina’s skin crahat Roreith these people, the junkyard dog brothers who didn’t like him around their sister Brandon had practically frozen at the sight of her then was in no way able to recover casually froirl fros for before Regina--the girl who’d started off the chain of events that ultiive up attachina wanted to think rationally That was a long tio Sofia was happily married now and had been for years Brandon was in love with Regina now, and she absolutely believed that--his feelings for her were practically tangible But that moment he and Sofia shared had spoken voluina, who’d never once been insecure, was noning in utter jealousy As special as Brandon made her feel, Sofia was even more special to hiirl to have touched hiotten her Evidently, noso