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I grabbed the currycos okay with you and Connor?"

"Better than with you and Adao talk to him, at least?"

My hand froze Heath was one of precious few people who knew all that Adam and I had endured Maybe it would help him to have a sympathetic ear…If, indeed, Heath’s ear was sympathetic

"He’ll think I sent you to talk to him"

"You just said yourself that he’sto talk to about the--about everything"

I sed, focusing on the dust I was stirring up on the surface of Whiskey’s coat "You can say it, you know You don’t have to spareh school, and that thought isme physically ill"

My brush froze in midstroke but I didn’t look at Heath

I knew exactly what he was referring to--that night that Zack, otten drunk and assaulted me

"You blaotten?"

I flung the brush into the tote and both horses jerked their heads up, startled I quieted the their necks

Heath ca to stroke Whiskey’s neck "Don’t be pissed atyou on this bullshit What happened to you--getting cancer, getting pregnant, losing the baby--was no h school was It happened to you Don’t punish yourself for it"

Tears started to stingout of his hold I cleared ain and looked away

"Does he blame you? Is that what all this is about?"