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My breathing becahtheadedness increased as I became acutely aware of every pair of eyes on uy who sleeps with a different girl every night, and is just going to use you up the way he does theuy who hates kids, and today ere at a hearing so you could try to get custody of your son Yeah, I’reat choice of a guy for you to have around your son Great role er, man, I think you should chill for a while," Knox said firer didn’t hand it over, and he wasn’t finished talking

"I’ve been telling you for so long to get a new car, and you’ve shot down estion every time You’re with Deacon for a few days and let hi to sound faed to pull the bottle fro started up inI didn’t know if I was still breathing too rapidly, or if I wasn’t breathing at all any before it felt like I would faint

"You always talk about not wanting to turn into Mouys she constantly brought around, the sa after"

I’m not like her I refuse to be her

He ticked off each likeness on his fingers "Hates kids, gets you to spend your er!" Knox barked out

"If you don’t want to be her, stop ot the first kid, Charlie, should we be expecting the second soon?"

My paled thatAfterward, you could have heard a pin drop in the warehouse

No one moved No one breathed

Deacon

June 24, 2016

GRAHAM AND I glanced at each other warily as we stepped up to the door of the warehouse The voices wereI’d expected e’d gotten there was yelling

I hurried to open the door, and stepped inside with Grahaht behind me

I only had a split second to take in the scene and absorb that Jagger was screa

At Charlie

Knox, Harlow, Grey, and her parents were all gathered around with looks that ranged froet in Charlie’s face She stood with her back to me, but even from where I stood fifteen feet away, I could see that she was shaking