Chapter One
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"Come on," Savannah whispered, tugging the young man's hand.
She climbed a wooden fence into the backyard of a narrow two story house.
"Watch out for the roses," she said as his feet threatened to land in the border. "We gotta come this way or the old bugger next door will bitch about me having friends over when no one's home."
"Yeah," the boy said. "I get shit from my folks about that, too."
"Oh, Paige and Lucas don't care, as long as I clean up and don't have any monster parties. Well, they might care if they found out I was bringing a guy over. But if that old man sees me having friends over? He starts telling people that Paige and Lucas are crappy guardians, shit like that. Makes me want to " She swallowed her next words and shrugged. "Tell him off or something."
I was less than a half dozen paces behind, but they never turned around, never even peered over their shoulders. Sometimes that ...
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