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“Wow, that’s so cool. And you wanted to be the odd one out?” I say chuckling.

“Yep I like to be different! They’ll love you. Chris and Todd are cool but Aidan well he’s a bit of a dick and we don’t really get along but you know what, you get one in every family.”

“So, what the age difference between you all then, is there much?”

“No not really. Aidan is the oldest at twenty-seven, Chris is twenty-six and Todd and I are twenty-two.”

“Wow, close then.” his smile makes his blue eyes light up, transfixing me.

We chat together for another hour or so, Adam either holds my hand or touches my leg. It doesn’t matter where it is, it’s like he needs to touch me. But every time he does that the desire amps up in my body a little bit more than the last time and he leaves me wanting more. I won’t tell him that though.

We pull up at Adam’s house, I turn the engine off and sit outside.

“I’ve really enjoyed tonight Darce thanks.” He kisses me again.

The kisses turn more passionate until I remember we’re still in the car and we’re outside Adams house. I break away from him slowly, his hands are still tangled in my hair.

“I better let you go home,” he says in a deep, breathy voice. If I thought his normal voice was like velvet well… this voice, I could listen to all day. After kissing me again, he steps from the car, he tells me he’ll ring me and to drive safe. I blow him a kiss from the car and head for home.

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When I arrive home. Mum is sitting in the kitchen with a cup of tea.

“Mum, hey. Are you okay?” I hear her sniffle and know straight away either Dad has upset her or it’s something else.

“What’s wrong?” She looks up at me with red rimmed eyes…

“It’s your Dad, I think he’s getting worse.” I freeze and wait to hear what she has to say. “He threatened to end it all tonight. He said he wanted to die. We had a huge argument and I walked out the room. I couldn’t handle it, Darcy. I mean why would he want to die?”

Wrapping my arms around her, I hug her, my throat closes up as I struggle to swallow my own saliva it’s that dry. The lump in my throat gets so big I can’t breathe and the tears roll from my face. We sit and cry together as I vow we’ll get through it together.

“I love you, Mum.” I hold her in my arms as she cries out the tears she’s been holding in for so long.

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