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Chapter 123
Chapter 123
| can’t stop smiling at my sister as we slowly walk around the fenced paddock of the stables, Heathcliff happily walking alongsideus, 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?”| 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 hershe 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.”
She laughs at that. “I’m not jealous, Baby Fay — I’m making
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stacks on stacks at the club every night.” She flicks her hair back haughtily. “Maybe I'll get a horse of my own.”But she flinches again when Heathcliff gives a little whinny,
making me laugh again.
Janeen and | spend the next few hours together, walking
Heathcliff around the property. We let him run and roll in the arena
as well before taking him back to his stall for a good grooming. I’m
pleased when I’m able to convince Janeen to take part in brushing
Heathcliff at least, giving her a curry comb and showing her how
to use it.
While we work, we talk. | tell her all about my life in the Lippert
house, about meeting my biological father, about Kent’s warnings
about my place within the mafia world. | don’t hold anything back,
grateful to again have a sister to whom | can tell anything.
“I'm sorry,” | say, at the end of it all. “About...what | said to you, and to dad, when we first found out about all of this stuff. It wasn’tfair, and it was just Kent doing his Mafia Don thing, trying to get
control of me.”
Janeen just shrugs, “Don’t worry about it. Dad and | figured it out,
a few days later, when we cooled off. You know we love you —
nothing is ever going to change that.”
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| feel tears prick my eyes as she says that. | did worry. | had
been so cruel, and | wondered if they’d ever forgive me. It’s so refreshing to my spirit to know that they forgave me immediately
and were just waiting for a way to get back into my life.
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wall. “What changed? Why did Lippert suddenly relent and openthis doorway for me to be back in your life?”
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