I smiled, "No it doesn't. My new stepmother wasn't the nicest person. Neither was my brother Vince. He was the guy you saw me with in the woods the first time we met...well the first time in a while."

Xander's eyes looked down at his hands, "I can be a very violent man. I did bad things I wasn't proud of it and I don't want to be violent when I'm around you, Elizabeth, but beating up Vince is one of the few acts of violence that I would never regret."

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