Never Truly Enough

Tessa froze, her eyes snapped open. "Why are you bringing up Jaxon?"

"Hasn't he always mattered to you?" Vance stared at her. "If one day he wanted you to baby him, would you do it?"

Tessa straightened, sliding her right leg off Vance's. She looked at him seriously. "No."

"You wouldn't treat him like that?" Vance narrowed his eyes, half suspicious, half as if trying to read her mind.

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