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"As for Tanner …" I trail off with a shrug I suspect he’s the source, but I can’t prove it "Doesn’t matter much They kno Yay," I add dryly
Jaether as she studies my face "Are you okay? I mean, really okay?"
I al will be fine But this is Jamie, and she’s been my best friend since about forever More i sister meant to me How much I’d relied on Ashley to survive all the shit hts locked in ht because my mother was convinced I neededwith a book on my head The second weekend of the month when I was allowed only water with lemon so that I would detox and "keep that nasty cellulite at bay" The big things, the little things, and so much more
I was the one to win the ribbons and the tiaras, but it was Ashley I’d envied Ashley, who’d been allowed to live a norht Ashley, who’d tended to her little sister even before tending to herself
I hadn’t thought about howmust have been drilled into ht about it until it was too late and I was holding Ashley’s suicide note inher husband leaving her on the fact that shea woed to be the lady our mother had tried to train us to be
Bitch
I close ht over the scar beneath one, I’d kicked it up a notch
There are so e of tissue represents an eh, there’s Ashley
"No," I finally say in answer to Jaht up Ashley, I was dealing with it I didn’t like it, but I was coping And I’ll be okay again I just wasn’t prepared today"
"It will pass, you know That’s the good and the bad about publicity It goes away"
"And like Tanner said, I’enuine "Maybe nextstarlet who’s dating Byron Rand"
"Bryan Raine," she corrects "And don’t even try to change the subject So coet the stupid paparazzi I want to hear the rest of what happened at the ht," I say, then finish offJamie what happened once Tanner and I reached Suncoast, and I was up to the actualwith the clients
"I’ll field that," Tanner had said when the head of IT askedat this from a purely administrative point of view"
"The little prick," Jau I et the client to take the product and the teaet Tanner out of my hair for six months"
"So what did you do?"
"When he finished, I just casually pointed out that while Tanner’s overvieas entirely accurate, he left out some key inforh ways to tweak the algorithe variety of options I et down to the actual coding, then all you really--"