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For the past three days, any ti E interruption, plus now she has assign the free time that I’d rather she spend withLabor Day and in part to Ada a scheduled C-section that day

Forhome to Sacramento on Saturday, so I already won’t see her for three days And second, my mom’s first teeks in rehab, which I’ve consciously refused to think about, are al for LA Friday night-- tomorrow

"We’re expected to be at a fa," he says

I feelbefore I even process the words And then I process the words Fa I want is to talk to another fucking therapist because of Mom "What," I say, my voice devoid of inflection

"Look, I’, but this is your ive up an hour or so of your custoe has you set up for Austin to LA Friday night, and I’"

Okay so first, he thinks he’s going to lectureMom a priority? What about all the dinners he oddas and weekends in do-not-disturb-I’ ain, he’s going to play the concern card? Really?

I run a hand throughit while oddae to have a car waiting at LAX"

"It’s already set up--you know George"

"Fine," I say again I’ to hi the fuck up on hiins

"No thanks anyway, Dad This week is killingI can heat up when I get there"

"All right I’ll see you toht tomorrow" I push end, hurlthe thick carpeting "Godda for another fewtoaround the subject of sex Any ti back, so do I But I really don’t want to go ho If ho, I could keep hold of my patience better If I hadn’t decided to tero out, find so myself that she’ll be worth the wait If the chemistry we have so far is any indication, she’ll be , where she and I did scenes in which our characters were involved in a heated exchange I sere both so into it ere half pissed, half turned on by the tiet the lighting repositioned, I angledaround "Come ’ere"

She followed me, puzzled, as I walked to the opposite side of a ten-foot high partition hung with board shorts on one side and sundresses on the other "Reid? What--?"

I didn’t let her finish, drawing her into the rainbow of sundresses and kissing her, pushing her up against the auzy cotton at her back like a cushion When I lifted my head, she blinked, her hands braced onme away, either "What was that for?" She was a little breathless

"That was ‘Have dinner with ain and she put a hand overover uess someone had to care about that, because I sure as shit didn’t

"We have to be here early again too out--"

"Dinner in, then" Her hand muffled my words, and the careful one-day scruff of beard I have to keep for filan to slide her hand away, carefully, like she didn’t trust me I tried not to smile and failed When she arched a brow at ined her with a ruler in one hand and a piece of chalk in the other, wearing glasses, a tight little skirt, high heeled puers "Scout’s honor"

She narrowed her eyes "Soine you as a Boy Scout"

I blinked innocently "Oh--that’s a Boy Scout thing?"

She rolled her eyes and I leaned in and kissed her "Reid"