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"That’s the plan Fill up the house with the families in Denmark anymore Small country, small houses, small fa country, big houses I have big dreaood dreao and let you sleep?"

Wes shook his head "You can stay I should sleep but I don’t want to I feel better talking to you"

"I like talking to you, too Although we keep getting off the subject"

"I don’t even rehed again

"How could I forget? I’uess for what’s onit What goes on in your head can’t even begin to cooes on in mine"

"That’s not fair There’s no e can co to happen No one is allowed inside my brain It is not pretty in there All sex all the ti"

"You have no idea"

"At least you’ve had it It’s all theory for ain Laila raised her fist and Wes covered his stomach

"I didn’t mean to hear it"

"Did you cover your ears? Leave your bedroo to music? Knock on the wall and tell them to keep it down?"

"No"

"Then yousex, I pro on Tante Elle was acting strange when she ca about how she left him"

"Did she say why?"

"I knohy she did I don’t kno she does it, stays with him I love him more than any otherwith him"

"She deserves better than to be a secret"

"He thinks so, too That night, he said the sahed as she pulled her knees to her chest It had started to cool off in the rooet under the covers They were only talking, not sleeping together

"He said he was sorry that the only tiether out in the open like this was in Denmark And that he wished it was under better circumstances than a funeral"

Wes rolled off the bed and opened the closet door He pulled down a blanket and came back to the bed

"What did Nora say?"

"She said" Laila paused as Wes laid the blanket over her before stretching out on the bed onceto shiver "She said that her feelings right noere the last thing he needed to worry about His mother had died He was here for the funeral, and she was here for hih the wall "Thank you for co I kno busy you are I know you have other--"