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“Why didn’t you go back to your parents after Serena left? Why start from scratch, Stefan?”

Thunder dawned in his gaze “I don’t want to talk about her”

“We’re talking about whatin front of him, she clasped his cheeks when he would haveabout you and me, no one else”

Tension seethed in his shoulders but Clio held on to hi without my parents’ fortune She made me question , determined to make the fortune she wanted all onin them so much that I hurt my parents for so many years”

The flash of pain that wreathed his features pierced through her That it could still affect him so much

“After all these years, do you not still realize it is her loss, Stefan? To walk away from you because your parents disowned you, to leave a man like you behind”

God, he had loved that undeserving woman so much, with all of his heart To have a man like Stefan love her unconditionally like that Clio couldn’t iht had such aresonated with it

She kissed his mouth, heat and tenderness and affection and a hundred other things rushing out of her on a wave she couldn’t curtail “That woman was a first-class moron, if I may say so”

A smile curved his mouth “Wow Are you sure you don’t need to wash out your mouth?”

“Oh, don’t encourage et a lot dirtier, believe me The reason I liked Aunt Grace soin front of kids either”

“I can’t wait, bella”

Clio laughed against hisher

As if it was as natural as drawing breath, he captured her mouth with his Molten heat uncoiled in every nerve, every ive, and craved it

Tongues dueling, lips scraping against teeth, in ahard

So his erection With a ainst his, sending erotic tingles through her lower belly