Chapter 123

I can’t stop smiling at my sister as we slowly walk around the fenced paddock of the stables, Heathcliff happily walking alongside us, my hand loosely holding the lead to his halter. Janeen, unfortunately, is less happy about the company than

Heathcliff is.

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“Are you sure he’s not going to like, rear or something?” She asks, looking at my horse from the side of her eye. “Or kick me?”

I laugh at my sister. “Seriously, Janeen, calm down – he’s a big

softie! And he needs his exercise.”

Janeen narrows her eyes at him as Heathcliff looks at her curiously. When he reaches his nose curiously out towards her

she flinches back, making me laugh more.

“So, he just…bought you a horse?” Janeen asks. “No questions

asked?”

I shrug. “Money is…different, in these circles. They have so damn.

much of it that giving people expensive things is more about the

gesture than what the thing itself is worth. Or something like that.”

Janeen raises her eyebrows at me, smirking a little. “Look at you, little rich girl.”

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wrinkle my nose at her. “Don’t be jealous.”

at that. “I’m not jealous, Baby

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her hair back haughtily.

flinches again when Heathcliff gives a

me laugh again.

next

We let him run and roll in

well before taking him back to his stall for a good grooming. I’m

convince Janeen to take part

curry comb

to use it.

tell her all about my

my biological father, about Kent’s warnings

mafia world. I don’t hold anything

a sister to whom I can

at the end of it all. “About…what I said to you, and to dad, when we first found out about all of this stuff. It wasn’t

Kent doing his Mafia Don thing, trying to

control of me.”

worry about it.

later, when we cooled off. You

is ever going to change

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tears prick my eyes as she says that. I did worry. I

if they’d ever forgive me. It’s so refreshing to my spirit to

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