*Claire*

I took a deep breath. Eric glanced my way, his eyebrow raised. I just started my story. The faster I told him, the faster it would be over. I told him everything. How my father had died when I was young, so I was raised by my mother. I had no siblings, as she never remarried or even dated after my father’s death. I then went into how she was killed in a car accident one night when I was 15. I was sent to my uncle, as I didn’t have anyone else. He was my father’s ...