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Colton finally approached rowled "I ca fine, and you little fuckers beat the shit out of an to look uneasy too "You mean you’re not the one who made her cry?"

No way could I own up to that, so I said, "Just help ain"

The two brothers glanced at each other before they turned back to me Then they held out their hands simultaneously, palms up

"What?" I said before it struckme You don’t really expect aveblack eye, do you?"

"Yes," they said together

Muttering, I hiked upwhen it caused hway robbery is what this is I’ me Where’s the humanity?" I pulled out two bills "I only have twenty bucks"

"That’ll do" Each boy took a ten-dollar bill and sly at me As they started out of the kitchen, I hissed "Hey! Are you going to help me sneak past your brother or not?"

"Oh, Noel’s not horocery store"

"Motherfucker," I ainst the floor, because dauy and then kick hirabbed the counter to pull otten played by those two little punks They kind ofway possible

As soon as I gained asped for breath because ency "Holy shit" I breathed through h the house--withto the walls--was a torturous son of a bitch

I didn’t knock when I reached Caroline’s roo inside

Caroline had slunk deep into the corner of the wall on her bed with her knees up to her chest and her ars Tears poured down her cheeks Both her eyes and nose were red, telling asped when she looked up and saw h the door" Forgettingonto her bed

I was such an ass Here waslittle spitfire, and I’d broken her Why the fuck had I reacted so adamantly at the doctor’s office when I’d known she was in the building, when I knew this was the topic she was most sensitive about?

"Da when she shied away fro theainstshattered "Baby, don’t," I begged "Please" On my knees in front of her, I reached for her hair but was suddenly afraid to touch her I didn’t want to do anything to hurt her any more than I already had "I’m sorry I’m so damn sorry"

She sniffed and lifted her face "What’re youwhat’re you sorry about? Youyou didn’t do anything--"

"But I said--"

She shook her head vigorously, shuttingI haven’t told myself a million tiht her face and finally hauled her into ulped in relief, so dalad she wasn’t ht now I’d have a baby, and--"

"And you’d be a total MILF" Okay, so I went for a joke to ease her pain I thought it ht actually work It’d worked for her before

But she started sobbing again "Oren" Burying her face in her hands, she let her inner pain loose "This isn’t funny"

I crurasped her ars we regret For ure out a way to forgive yourself and e it, we gotta just learn froret this or not--"