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The avoidance of a proper answer was returned with a raised brow and a skeptical look. Of course it didn’t take long for him to admit why he was on the ground. “Did you hurt yourself?” She hadn’t been such a helicopter parent with the first four, but then again there situation had been different.

Although he avoided her gaze, Lie inspected him further. She wasn’t really all that worried, but it gave her something to do. Having found nothing extremely out of the ordinary, Lie smiled again and gave him a slobbery lick to the cheek while he was looking else where. “I think you just might live.”