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"Can you explain that away?" heranother picture at her where it looked like she was crying as she climbed out of the limo alone "Or were you so impressed by the limo you didn’t care what he did to you or how he hurt you?"

No The only thing I cared about in thathis breath in my ear, his mouth on my skin as he showed me how precious I was to him The tears hadn’t been because he hurt her but because he loved her

When she looked from her father’s face to her mother’s, she had a sense of loss They’d never understand And part of her didn’t care if they did

"Was that a supportive, Christian thing to say, Mo me feel like some kind of materialistic bitch?"

"Don’t you talk to hed Counted to twenty "Then please don’t judge me before you let me speak" She waved the picture "I don’t knoho took this, or why, but that wasn’t Ronin’s limo--not that it irlfriend, the one I assu it’s all lies? That she soitally altered his face into the shots?" Her father pointed to the stack of photos "There are well over a dozen different women in those pictures Whoever did this couldn’t have faked that"

"I didn’t say they were faked Those are pictures froo" Amery had seen some of those pictures--they were in Ronin’s photo albus So that snake Nao, which was just another breach of trust

"What about this one?" he de the dojo the day after the parking garage attack, her lip still swollen, her eye a hideous shade of black With the hunched-over posture, she lookedbeaten down The next shot, a close-up of her face, showed everythe bruises on her neck

"So you’re not denying anything we’ve said about thisyou that you don’t know hie hi pause settled between them

"Who are you?" her father said hoarsely "This is not hoe raised you We provided you with a ht path?"

"Here you are, living in the big city, living a life of sin and depravity" Her ument "This is why she doesn’t coly truth about her life She’s so caught up in it that she can’t see she’s allowing herself to be fed a line of lies Where will she be when she’s been used up and discarded? No one ant her then No one will care to help a woman who refuses to help herself"

Don’t cry Goddaed to choke out

"We can only do soan arm around his wife’s shoulder "We want to help you Will you coht and pray about it?"

Help her their way Aht to hiain

Her father appeared relieved "At least give this so at the Holiday Inn Express out by the airport"

"For how long?"