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"Yes, this is very iainst my sensitive skin as his head moved lower on my chest and drew a nipple into his oner and all was forgiven It was decided ~ ereto California

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Down In the Valley ~ The Head and the Heart

Can’t Stop Lovin’ You ~ Aerosmith (feat Carrie Underwood)

MASON

I really had no clue what to expect once I got resettled intothere with , we both went back to our rooh we had just been grocery shopping, the last thing I felt like doing was cooking or dirtying up the kitchen, so I just ordered sos for us, which we both ate in the privacy of our own bedrooms Luckily, however, it didn’t feel forced or aith her It wasn’t like ere great friends or felt like we needed to entertain each other, ere just rooinning

Waking up the followingin my apartment for the first time in months did feel a little weird I wasn’t sure what exactly to do with myself to be quite honest I had an appoint Andi to Eet her set up with a job I decided to go for a run, ot back an hour or so later, Andi was lounging on the couch watching television and the house s

She looked up as I walked through the door and s to the tattoo that covered e and disappeared intoher eyes back to ht you were here so I made some breakfast, but you never cary It should still be warm"

"Thank you so much, you didn’t have to do that, but it srin I walked directly into the kitchen and grabbed the plate of eggs, bacon, and breakfast potatoes and inhaled it in less than five ood because I had been eating hospital food for a month and a half or due to her excellent culinary skills, but either way it was like heaven in my mouth I washed off my plate when I had finished and loaded it in the dishwasher

As I walked past her on my way to the shower, I coain" She s her attention to whatever she atching on the TV

Once I was stripped and under the spray of ater, I exhaled a deep breath that I didn’t even realize I was holding I never realized how hard it was to simply live before; I had always just done it ~ day after day However, the previous twenty four hours est day of my life It was as if each oing to do next Shaking off , I quickly washed up and got dressed forHeather’s face was a coh it was in her office instead of the rehab facility, it felt co Apparently the e were co she askedsomeone else’s life?"

As soon as she asked, I realized that was exactly how I felt ~ like I was living a different person’s life I nodded and half-screamed at her, "Yes! That’s it!"

She smiled and chuckled a bit "That’s completely normal, Mason What you need to realize is that it’s still your life, you’re just looking at with a clarity that you haven’t had in quite so heavily, you still had a distorted vision of not your life soon around you"

"So you’re saying I was a self-centered asshole to everyone before?" I asked, half-joking

"Pretty rin, but I knew she was dead serious