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s couldn't believe he'd actually seen Nicolas Lewis after all these years. He'd never connected that Shane Lewis was the same as Nicolas Lewis. He'd looked di

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barely audible. "Yes,

looking at Chris. "H

onths, six days...and some hours," Chr

ing all this in your head?

ll not turning to look at Damon. "I

being discussed, you chose to calculate the last time you saw some billio

country home for summer vacation. It was the best vacation of my life. Not because the countryside was beautiful, or because

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n together. In fact, so much fun that I never wanted to leave the place. His father had died some years earlier together with Nick's...Shane's elder brother in a car crash so all he had was his mother. There was so much love between mother and son it was beautiful to watch. But Auntie Syl

l the wee hours of the morning. I taught him to play but he was so smart he started beating me at my own game. I was so impressed with his intelligence and skill, I gave him the domi

eparate ways after the vacation was unbearable. I wanted to share everything I had with him. You see, I was bigger and richer...thanks to my wealthy father, so though I was the same age as him, I thought he was my responsibility. He was so small and so damn handsome." Chris gave his first real smile since he saw Shane at the meeting. "No one knew how we felt about each other. He was my world. Then it happened. One evening, we were

, the next, I was feeling so disgusted. I couldn't believe I'd actually allowed a guy to do that to me. It's not like I had a girlfriend somewhere or had ever gotten intimate with a girl. I just felt that no matter how pleasurable what had happened was, it wasn't

ears. And when Chris finally turned his eyes onto Damon, there was so muc

him to

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