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"Oz" Cyrus appears in the doorway and it takes every ounce of self-control to not kiss her again Those big doe eyes are begging me to find a way to fix this now and stay, but unlike Chevy, I don’t know ic

"You need to head hout Once upon a time, he would say home and mean here "Guess when it comes down to it, I’ers to me and I quickly squeeze the her door behind ive it

Cyrustoless, but I don’t listen Olivia stands in the living roorabs ers dig into my skin "Don’t you dare walk away from here and think differently"

I rub a hand over my face and point down the hallway "Why did they lie to her? She’s not in there bleeding because he went to prison She’s in there bleeding because he lied Again and fucking again Even now, he’s not going to tell her, is he? He’s not even going to try to explain his side of what happened She’s in there sy with her mother when she doesn’t even know the whole story She doesn’t know that her uncle tried to hurt thees fro from the table next to the couch where Violet shrinks casts an odd shadow over him

"I kept o in there and tell her everything I know"

"Then who did tell her?" Eli asks

I keep eye contact with hinore that Violet exists For all her faults in the past few months, I still love her and I will never rat her out I’ll protect her because that is what faoes ho her numbers and a muscle in his jaw ticks

"That is not your decision to make," he says

"Since I’m in love with her, it is my decision"

It’s like the air is sucked out of the roolare each other down I sense thein everyone’s mind, but Olivia sticks hat’s currently important "I’ve told you before, Oz, you don’t know the whole truth"

"Does anyone? E We all have cancer, proble it fester"

I yank my keys out of my pocket "Because I have always respected you, Eli, you have until she touches down in Florida to ht with E can decide on whatever lie you’re going to tell next"