Preparing to open the car door, Cecilia felt her legs go weak.

She turned toward Mark and whispered, “Thank you for giving me a ride home, Uncle Mark.

Mark rested his elbow on the window and smoked quietly.

After a while, he threw the cigarette butt away and said in a hoarse voice, “I’m too old for little girls like you.

Cecilia bit her lip and muttered, “I’m 27 years old.

I’m no longer a little girl.

Mark wrapped his long, lean fingers around the steering wheel.

He smiled, a little in an amused way and a little in a mocking way.

carry around those plushies and

girls

” ©

teased like that, Cecilia

Mark didn’t leave immediately.

©

sat in the car and smoked, watching Cecilia’s slender figure disappear

someone to

was his

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see her family again before she was gone, a fact that had since become a thorn in

thought of Rena, his sister’s

the Evans family’s distinguishing physical features

Mark thought that Cecilia was more like

No.

clumsier

forgot about the lit cigarette he had between his

didn’t notice that it had burned out until

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