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"Set up one of those sessions--the fa Give me teeks notice and I’ll be there Just me Not Kellin yet We’ll take it from there"

Oh dear Buddha Thank you Thank you Thank you "Okay," I breathe "Thanks Gabbie"

"Don’t thank me yet This could blow up in all our faces"

"I know, but I’ to be optihtly "I wasn’t"

"Mason," she and I say at the sa to go wake him up so he can talk to you Heup on the couch, his hands clasped together between his knees He smiles at me and I hold out the phone

"Your rips my wrist with his other hand "Thank you"

"No problem," I say

"No, Hope," he utters His eyes lock on mine and he shakes his head "Thank you"

9

Mason

"Have you been using the exercises we talked about?" Wes,his elbows on his knees He watches h week," I say "Hope’s back on thebetter With Mom, I mean"

Wes sits back and scratches his full beard "What do you think?"

"It doesn’t solve shit It’s a band aid And I don’t want her to go"

"So how have you handled it?"

I sigh I knehen I sidestepped his question he wasn’t going to let it go "I lost my temper at work"

"What happened?" His eyes lock on ot fired"

He sht smartass Back up a few steps What happened that caused you to lose your teaze on the fra of a winds in the world, he chose this one to display in his office Wind with the wind to help provide so electricity… Maybe that’s why he has it

To remind us we have a reason--a purpose

"What’s up with the windain

He pivots in his seat and looks over his shoulder When he turns back to"My dad collected theuess it rubbed off on ers "Did your dad collect anything?"

I narrowIon her"

"Hope?"

I chuckle "Yeah" My foot starts bouncing, sendinglost it It’s not like I thought she was interested, but she keeps saying she should leave I got this picture in uy, Shane froh "The panic--not the i shit all night, right? And I’ve kepthi like such an asshole as I look back at it "She was pulling a pizza out of the ovens and when she bent over, he was staring at her ass"

"What’d you do?"

"Nothing I didn’t do shit I didn’t do a God dairlfriend’s ass, Wes You’d have been proud" I exhale a harsh laugh "But then he looked at me and said, ‘Soon as you fuck that up, Macey, I’s his chin up and nods once "What happened?"

I lock , deep breath "I jumped the counter and punched hi nose"

"That it? Did you stop?"