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Fuck, the guy was gorgeous

Instead of watching TV like I planned, I went to the wall of s and took in the sight before h that he had a view of the city and the er years in Seattle along with rown up in As an illegal i jobs or an education, so hborhoods that were far from the tourist filled city But as hard aswe’d needed, she’d never failed to make us a family first There’d never been any doubt in hershe hadn’t had herself…a stable hoe, careers And we’d been on track until the day INS had shown up at our door and taken her away One one and hteen-year-old sister had been left to find a way to care for both of us And then Elena was gone too…

“Hey, you okay?”

I turned to see Mav watchinga pair of jeans, black boots and a black T-shirt His da into loose ringlets that should have looked strange on a man but, in fact, looked sexy as hell

“Yeah,” I said, hts ofabout what to make for dinner”

I had no doubt Mav could tell I was lying, but fortunately he didn’t call me on it

“Are you ready to go?” I asked as I began walking towards the door

“In a second,” Mav said “I want to talk to you about so first”

“Okay,” I said,on alert at the reserved tone in his voice

Mav ran his fingers through his hair and lowered his eyes for a ht words to say When he finally lifted theoing to ask e

So I was completely unprepared when he said, “Eli, the man who assaulted you…was it Dominic Barretti?”

Chapter Five

Mav