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"--but I’inity this weekend"

She gasped "What? Are you kidding uilty flicker in his eyes was all the answer she needed

"He told you?"

"Not after the fact But he asked for my advice beforehand," Jackson adhtened in a thin line It was a few seconds before she could speak again, and when she did, it came as an explosion of accusation

"And you didn’t talk hio-ahead to have sex?" Her chest clenched with resent sex! Why didn’t you try to stop him?"

Jackson answered in a calm, even tone, unfazed by the indictment "There was no way to stop hie boy once All those lectures about abstinence went in one ear and out the other"

"Did you at least try to talk him out of it?"

"No"

Mia stuedHe’d already decided to do it before he spoke to e his ritted teeth "But you didn’t even try You say you’re ht? Well,the biggest mistake of his life"

Jackson had the nerve to sonna be the biggest mistake of his life And as I recall, didn’t you lose your virginity at sixteen too?"

"Yes," she grue"

"Bullshit You were a horny kid, just like Danny" Jackson’s features hardened "And I find itthe blaht Rationally, she kneasn’t his fault--Danny’s hormones were to bla out at Jackson She was still so on edge from the encounter with her mother, but Brenda wasn’t here, and neither was Danny, and Mia’s anger and frustration needed a target

Unfortunately, that target was Jackson

"I think you should go"