Chapter 125

Fay knocks gently on the open door to Kent’s office that night, leaning casually against it. He looks up, his expression changing from one of irritation to surprise.

“Fay,” he says, folding his hands on his desk. “What can I do for you?”

“Can I come in?” she asks, tentative. Kent nods, waiting patiently as she comes into the room and seats herself primly in a chair

across from him.

“I just wanted to say thank you,” she says, her voice soft and earnest. “For my sister. That was so wonderful, today, to have her back in my life for a little bit.”

Kent works hard to keep the smile off of his mouth. He’s surprised, really, by the pleasure he feels in hearing her apology. He likes it, he decides, when she comes to him to express gratitude. When she sits quietly before him, looking at him happy, grateful.

Obedient.

Damnit, but it makes him want to buy her a thousand more sisters.

or horses or whatever it is that makes her happy.

“You’re welcome,” he says simply, leaning back in his chair and

studying her. He waits for her to continue the conversation.

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squirming a little in her seat, “anything I can do? To pay you back?”

for anything, not now.

in the end, that the payment for his kindness

her loyalty. And her

she says, smiling and looking awkwardly

then.

then he looks back to his computer, clicking through some files. He looks back towards her, though, when he hears a second voice.

coming into the

here?”

just…did something really nice for me today. So I stopped in to say

them. To Kent’s surprise, Daniel’s

mad about?

Kent says to her, keeping his eyes on Daniel. “Let me have a word with my son.”

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as he likes her – Fay flits

stairs towards her room.

asks, standing in front of the

his hands in

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