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"I’ll do ave her arm a squeeze and turned to the rest of the the grill out back, so you guys had better co down"

"Sweet," Ghost said "I’"

"Con and Tay ood time" His other torkers had ridden separately

"They said they set the cruise at ninety" Kara rolled her eyes as she led theht out Candace’s and he gave her fingers a squeeze He really couldn’t iht now, thrown into the ers the likes of which she’d probably never hung out with before Kara had sleeves as solid and dense as his own, a nose ring and angelbites Not toyou couldn’t see She was brash and opinionated and, ht A far cry from the Andrews family, not to mention his own

Candace probably felt about as co out with his own straight-laced relatives, except she see a lot rabbed all the girls and headed into the kitchen with the her on the house

She was just too sweet, too polite He’d never i for someone like her, not in a million years, but if he was honest with hiined a girl like her falling for him

Chapter Fourteen

Kara was very pretty and evenNot that she was unfriendly She was too cool and too likeable Surrounded by girls who knew one another and see to keep froround She didn’t want to let Brian down by notwith his friends, but it wasn’t just for him She needed this for herself To prove to herself that she could function when she wasn’t under the protective shadow of her freakishly tyrannical family

She ot back fro black hair and, as expected, lots of tattoos He and Brian greeted each other with guy hugs and good-natured insults, but there was no question he was souys headed out into the backyard to take over grilling duties while the girls gathered around the kitchen table

Candace accepted the beer she was offered, feeling it would’ve been rude not to do so, but she barely sipped it Kara wasn’t drinking, because apparently she and Marco were trying to get pregnant The conversation flew fast and furious, skipping fro up to work to music to Kara’s endeavors to conceive

"So how is the baby- "You would think it would be kind of boring and ! Give it to"It’s actually not To , to wonder in the irl, it’s never boring I don’t think I’ll ever get enough of hiuys were gathered around the grill

"How long have you been ether for fifteen Met in high school"

"Wow"

Kara’s attention turned back to her "How long have you and Brian been dating? It must be a new development because he never mentioned you until he called earlier today to say you were co I mean, I wish I could say ere, to be honest, but…it’s complicated"

A chorus of voices spoke up at once:

"Girl, he’s crazy about you"