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"You even think about leaving me, Autumn, and I will hunt your ass down and spank the shit out of you" He pauses and his voice gentles "I don’t have ti about what happened"

What is happening toonto my closet floor

"I’ll text you later, baby," he says softly

I walk to the bed and lie down, pulling some of my hair to my face to smell it Just like the last ti tofroet away froest h o to theto o downstairs I need ht when I came home I pull on a pair of shorts and leavethe front door The second I hit the front porch, a silver convertible pulls up I squint nize the driver, I run to , and run back to the front porch

"Do you ever wear clothes?" Kenton’s ex, Cassie, yells

I want to tell her no, but instead, I run into the house, droppingnext to the door I alrabs a handful of ht in ht back, knowing that the consequences would be a lot worse if I did My body freezes, and then es I turn around and soes to her cheek, and her eyes widened then narrow

"You bitch," she says, s me back a lot harder than I hit her

"I’m a bitch?" I shake ht now," I say with a scary cal cheek I’ you’re sleeping in a bed I picked out…that I fked hiood, but I keep ive her the satisfaction of knowing that her words affectedforward and pointing at the door

"You’re sleeping in et out?" She lets out a laugh then looks me over

"He’s not yours," I hiss

"He will alant ed the bed or redecorated?"

Wow, this chick is crazy, but her telling rating my nerves I turn and run up the stairs as fast as I can I hear her followingthe door behind me My eyes land on the bed, which is stillI look around and see that he has a large sliding glass door in his room that leads out onto the upper balcony Cassie starts pounding on the door, and I quickly look at it before running to the bed to toss the covers, sheets, and pillows onto the floor

The bed is queen-sized, so even with the weight of theit to the side I see that the side rails hook into the headboard and the slats are what keeps the mattress up, so I toss the slats aside then pull up on the side pieces The bed falls apart, the footboard falling to the floor and the headboard hitting the wall