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Brenda Jackson
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But still, she had shown him how important it was
to occasionally get in touch with your carefree side,
something he failed to do often enough.
Deciding that since he had finished dressing
there was no reason to linger around in the bedroom,
he walked into the sitting room. For his peace of
mind he felt the best thing to do was to remove
himself from temptation’s way. Put his mind on
something else. So he thought about his parents. He
had spoken to them yesterday. After spending two
weeks in France they were back in the U.S. According
to them, Franco Saxon’s health had greatly
improved. Conversely, they had known that Dominic
really didn’t give a royal damn but his mother
had mentioned it anyway. There had been so many
times when he’d been younger, when after hearing
his classmates talk about their grandparents and
what a blessing they were in their lives, that he had
longed for grandparents of his own. His father had
told him his mother—Dominic’s grandmother—
had died when he was a little boy, but his grandfather
was in France. As a young boy, Dominic could
not understand if he had a grandfather that existed,
why he never came to visit to spend time with him
like his friends’ grandparents had.
Much to his parents’ credit, they had never
spoken ill of Franco Saxon. Over the years they
had accepted the older man’s decision not to be a
part of their lives. It was only when Dominic was