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"Couldn’t"

"Ah" He left again, and came back with a bottle of Gatorade and two Aleve "Come on, let’s take your medicine or you’ll feel like shite touzzled the liquid and sed the pills As I stretched back on the couch, he grabbed a blanket from the hall closet and draped it over me Once he was satisfied, he sat down on the heavy, rowled

He arched a sardonic brow "I’ve never seen you as a moody drunk is all Not sure I take to it well I like fun Dax better--not this rock-bottorunted "I’m not rock bottom" A pause "Thanks for the ride home, man"

"Yep"

I nodded Carefully, since the room still spun

He rose up to leave

"What--what did Remi say?"

He opened his mouth and I held a hand up "No Don’t tellI needed to see"

His hands on her naked skin Her arht toot it Sleep tight, princess" He turned down the lights and walked out of the room

I closed my eyes and drifted into a dark oblivion

I PLOPPED DOWN on the plaid couch Elizabeth had picked out for azed around at my house

My house All twenty-five hundred square feet of it I wanted to shout it from the rooftop Hell, maybe I’d climb up there later and drink a beer Because it wasat?" Declan said as he stalked in the front door carrying a box of dishes

"Just can’t wrap my head around this place" I stood and took the box froh it was clear he didn’t need the help I wasn’t the only one who’d bulked up even more over the summer

"You put a lot of work into it these past few days," he said, glancing around "Feels good, huh?"

I nodded

Elizabeth called down fro the bathrooet one" She grinned broadly and bounced down the stairs, her hair in a ponytail and a sirl with dramatic dark eyebrows and white-blonde hair; I wasn’t surprised Declan had fallen fast and hard