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Where had Nao joy in watching Ronin getting puain He needed her Amery bit her lip and tasted the salt from her tears in the back of her throat

She opened the DVD drive and removed the disk

"Well?"

"I don’t knohat you want me to say"

"I told you this was a waste of time," her mother snapped

"Say that our concerns are justified"

Amery shook her head "You are off base on this Ronin isn’t a monster Not even close"

"You will never convince us of that And on’t stand by and watch your life destroyed, young lady"

"You’re telling me if I stay with Ronin, you’ll disown me?"

"We cannot support you in this life choice, Amery We will not"

"You’ve never supported me in any choices Froe I chose, toto hear from you If we don’t, we’ll be on our way and you won’t hear frohtened out"

Amery clutched the et up when they walked out the door

CHAPTER TWENTY

RONIN couldn’t get ahold of Amery

Normally even if she was busy she’d at least text him back and let him know she’d call him when she had a chance

So why hadn’t he heard from her in more than seven hours?

Don’t be a possessive assle who needs to knohere your wo the class of blue and green belts--what a trip that’d been--and was taking a breather in his office when Deacon poked his head in

"Got a minute, Sensei?"

"What’s up?"

"Molly is here forclass, and she wants to talk to you"

There went Ronin’s theory that Amery had kept Molly late to work on the Okada project and had lost track of time "Send her in" As soon as he saw Molly’s face, he knew so

"Sorry to bother you, but have you talked to Amery in the last few hours?"