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“Who could forget Kayla? I saw her, too, on h school Say, are you still interested in her?”
Jackson al that Josh didn’t know the history between hiirlfriend
“Can’t say that I am,” he said slowly
“Then, would it bother you if I asked her out? That is, if I run into her”
Jackson gulped a mouthful of beer rather than reply too quickly He didn’t knohat kind of woman Kayla had become, any more than he knehat she wanted to talk about with hiotten her pregnant—unlikely, but not impossible
He finally shrugged “It makes no difference to me Just employ the usual caution when it comes to women”
“Amen to that, brother”
CHAPTER TWO
ALEX SQUIRMED AS he listened to the faintdownstairs after dinner
The discussion he’d dreaded all day was co it since the moment he’d decided to ditch Dad and head for Montana
He just hadn’t been able to stand the way Dad got so excited about spending time with Brant, his new stepson, but didn’t seem to notice when his other two kids were around Dad used to clai all that outdoor stuff with Brant and wasn’t interested in the things he and Alex had once done together And it sounded as though the two of the trip they’d taken right after school got out
Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if Brant wasn’t such an obnoxious little creep
Nah, Alex decided Finding out his dad had adopted hih noan obnoxious creep hadn’t helped
Worst of all, Alex realized he should have figured it out a long tio He and Dad weren’t at all alike Maybe, deep down, he had known and hadn’t wanted to admit it
His sister slid into the rooht you’d have the gazoomba to run away from home”
Alex pulled himself up and faced the squirt Why did she have to e words? You’d never know she was practically a genius Maybe Personally, he thought she’d just fooled the teachers and school counselor
“I didn’t run away frohtily “Guys who run away from home don’t leave letters to tell theirBesides, I also emailed Sandy about it” Sandy had been his best friend for as long as he could remember
“That’s a technicality Boy, was Mom pissed”
“You’re too young to talk like that Besides, Moet pissed, or at least I don’t think so”
“Sho much you know She was pissed at Dad, too, at first because he thought you’d gone off for the day without telling anyone and hadn’t done anything about it, and then because he didn’t call her right off”