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She greeted a couple of the kids and their lad that the huood use

"Nice work," shehis cookie with enough frosting to put a red and green blitz on half of Caldwell

The stairs to the second floor were in the front of the ra as she ascended to the top landing Her office was not far from Marissa’s, but when she put her head into her boss’s work space, the feood to prioritize in her ht: the reports she wanted to finish up, thewith the intake supervisor, and then the coo back ho with the trauone down at Havers’s clinic

She was behind her desk, answering e on the phone, about to transition into her report-writing mind-set, when she realized she hadn’t kept up with tradition

"… think that is a really healthy solution," she said to the feood thing You need extra help and support during this transitional period"

The survivor she was speaking with had been in the house for about eight months, the victim of an abusive boyfriend who had threatened to kill her when she’d told hi him after twenty-two years Fortunately, she had had Safe Place to coradually unpacked all the dae from decades of abuse

Now she was out on her own, and as for the boyfriend?

He was doing better, too

Although that wasn’t a result of personal introspection and growth That was because Butch and Rhage had paid hiht before dawn

Mary hadn’t asked a lot of questions Actually, there had been only one: Was the bastard still breathing? When that had been answered in the affirmative, that was all she’d needed to know--and it ithout saying that thehis ex anys, head, and testicles where they were supposed to be

"I’ every word "Okay, great I’ll look forward to it Bye, now"

As she hung up, she opened Facebook on her coroup for vaht before, and her buoyant mood meant, for once, she didn’t have a stos that had absolutely nothing to do with Bitty in the slightest

"Nailed it," she said as she went to--

She had aled nuer icon

For some stupid reason, she looked around the rooht h her open door

Mary had never gotten a e before on her account She wasn’t a frequent FB user at all In fact … the only post she had everif anybody was fairl had talked about right after her mother had passed The one who had supposedly been i for her, in spite of the fact that heraddress for any family whatsoever