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"No, I caht to you because you were so upset, and I couldn’t iine that it could be worse than it already was But you’re still not going hoet whatever it is cleaned up What happened there? You never answered my questions"

I looked up at hiine it could be worse? I’o home and check it out or not?"

"No, I-" he started, but I cut him off

"Then you have no idea what that…that…fucking cunt…did So how could you say that it couldn’t be worse than it was?" I stared at hi me up But then it clicked in htened on my shoulders and he tried to pull me into his embrace "Baby"

"No Don’t you ‘baby’ me, Ian Tell me What else? What else did she do, because it’s obvious there wasat hi to hi, though it wasn’t him I was pissed off at

It was Victoria, the fucking she-bitch froed just as soon as I got my hands on her

Ian looked over ht want to take Everly out of the room for a o outside I just know this isn’t going to be pretty"

Emma stood immediately and walked over to pluck Everly up from the play yard before she walked toward the stairs "It’s fine, she probably needs changed again, anyway" She suddenly jolted, like she’d re, which she had She reached into her back pocket and pulled out the folded, crumpled up note that I’d shown her atto hand it to Ian

Just…" she bobbed her head around, herelse to say, but just couldn’t get it out

Ian nodded and said, quietly, "I knoill She’ll be fine"

Emma sent him one last look that faded into relief at his words and ascended the stairs

Ian didn’t speak until they heard the door close upstairs "Here"

I took his phone from his hand when he held it out It was an autoretted just as soon as he said, "Text es"

My sto up a million and one scenarios as to what I’d find when I clicked open his es But none of them could even come close to what I saw