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"You can’t--"

I jerked upright, panting, the sheet inofthat wokeat ing co me in the chest

"For fuck’s sake, cal ainsthis head

Closing ainst the headboard, willing s, and about that long to realize that petting Lucky was calhed to htstand The tiave , to handle my own crap

But a lot had happened since I first called Eva to talk about a nights

"Hey," Eva answered, sounding groggy and sexy "You okay?"

"Better now that I’ht frisky?"

Calm settled overto ease me into it, instead Yet another reason for ardless of my first instincts about it Because when Eva was happy, I was happy "Maybe all of the above"

"Okay" Sheets rustled "Take it from the top, ace"

"If I latch the crate door, Lucky bitches about it and I can’t sleep"

She laughed "You’re a softie He’s got your number Did you put him in your office?"

"No He barks in there and I still can’t sleep I ended up just closing the crate door without locking it and he settled down"

"He’s not going to learn to control his bladder if you don’t crate-train hi in htmare I think he did it on purpose"

She was quiet a minute "Tellto jump up to the bed earlier and couldn’t h But he hauled his ass up here to wake me"

Her exhale drifted across the line "Guess he can’t sleep when you’re hed The lingering distress from the dreae to take you over el"

Amusement warmed her voice "Try it, babe See what happens"

I kneould happen She was the one who couldn’t see it Yet

"Going back to your dream …" she ain I really think you need to bring Hugh up to your ain I know it’ll be painful, but I think it has to be done"

"It won’t change anything"

"You don’t know that for sure"

"I do" I shifted and Lucky gave a protesting grunt "I didn’t get around to telling you earlier Chris filed for divorce"

"What? When?"

"I’m not sure I just heard about it today from Ireland I talked to Chris after work, but he just went over their prenup and let me know that he wanted to make some added concessions We didn’t discuss his reasons for wanting to end the h?"

I sighed, grateful I could talk to her about it "I think it’s too much of a coincidence to be totally unrelated"