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I don’t even reot into his ridiculously high truck One second we are still standing in Maddox’s living roo into traffic and on the way to his house

I have been sitting here thinking about the night to co interruptsin my seat, I look down at the display, and s face

"Hey you," I answer, looking over at Axel out of habit I have to remind myself that he isn’t Brandon and a phone call froister on his radar

"Hey back at ya! Aren’t you just a dirty little hoe bag!?" She sings intokill Maddox

"I don’t knohat you’re talking about" I hedge, figuring it’s best to just play du to burst over this new develop just what she has heard either

"Don’t you act like you don’t knohat I’ about, missy! I had a visit froht know hiht and freaking early and, Ibeforecoffee! Anyhow, he called, askedoff to the office, he was co, Izzy Noant to tellof your clothes?" Little shit is laughing atthis way too much

"Yeah, yeah Like you don’t already know Let ?" I ask sarcastically

"Maddox? Why would he come over?"

"Seriously, Dee? You didn’t talk to hiet your stuff together His words were so Jane to tree house where she won’t wear clothes and ill play bedroom aerobics for the rest of the days’, then he took four of your biggest bags and packed almost all of your stuff up So, now, do you want to tellon?" She sounds nervous now, like she isn’t sure if she did the right thing by letting him pack up my stuff

"It’s co on things But, I will ads does sound a bit excessive" I look back over at hihter

"This is not funny" I hiss at hi hilarious You really think that once I bury ht walls squeezing the coo again? Youmind, Princess I won’t even be able to let you out of le day we have lost" He leans over and lands a s back at the road

"Oh…my…God…" Dee says softly into the phone, "I think I just came That was seriously hot, Iz" She is not the only one that aset et nervous for what is to come

Chapter 15

I must have been really out of it the last ti like what I aht now His house is ridiculous Why one man needs thisover at theblack truck "Why exactly do you need a six bedrooain?" He has no family; it was justthe way, I just can’t understand this Asa fauish

He almost looks embarrassed by the answer and before he even speaks, it all e a sh school To aco that he isn’t that person any in a box I proo that I would never have to worry about space again Or not having it" He walks over to me and pulls me into his arms, "You knohat it was like in June and Donnie’s hole of a room I had even less when I was enlisted Doesn’t ive hi

"Right, let’s go get settled before I fire up the grill and cook dinner You’re going to need your strength tonight, Princess"

Heat flushes through ht to the bedrooh," he continues, "it ht be nice to skip the steaks and have dessert first"

Quivers of arousal shoot througharht here on his driveway

He parks in front of the house this tie, so alk inside I ae staircase right smack in the middle of a very empty rooht there is another There are two hallways on the sides of the staircase but I have a feeling they lead to more emptiness I have apparently only seen a fraction of the house when I was here before