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.

and a small

little girls

” ©

that, Cecilia

Mark didn’t leave immediately.

©

car and smoked, watching Cecilia’s slender

of someone to whom he’d once

his younger

©

passed away way before her time, and she didn’t get the chance to see her family again before she was gone, a fact

Rena, his sister’s

distinguishing physical features and brown

though, Mark thought

No.

clumsier

own reverie, Mark forgot about

had burned out until

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