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A little sweaty underneath the hot blankets? Oh yeah

Knot in my stomach? Gone

Shah to prop up on iven his full dress and … I peeked under the covers … et even close to it I closed my eyes and tried to rerip of a headache

I’d told Carter about Vic andto the bathroom? I winced, and Carter shifted He opened his eyes and sawover his face "Good "

"I slept with Vic In Joey Plazen’s trailer" It was likeout

He smiled "Yes I know You mentioned that, several times"

"And you’re okay with it?"

He consideredmoment "I wasn’t But … you’re pretty hard to stay mad at when you’re bent over a toilet"

I winced "Sorry"

"You said that a lot last night" He met my eyes "But you also told me it was over, with you and hiaze "Definitely" The words rolled out strong and confident And I was sure of myself, positive that I wanted it to be over What I wasn’t as confident about was if it actually was over It took two to tango, but it also took two to part

"Why do you seele of sheets "It was after we hooked up That’d bother souys" It definitely would have bothered Vic

"I didn’t exactly walk away fro loyalty" He reached for me, but I rolled away Mainly because I was pretty surebreath was horrific But also because he was so casual about this that it was raising my own questions

"Did you have someone like that? An ex as still around? Or who still is?"

"You eted with the edge of the sheet "Before that show, I hadn’t seen Presa in months"

Months? I would have preferred years "Anyone else?" The ives s me into isolated places for impromptu sex?" He shook his head with a s a straight answer "Do you?"

"No" He pulled at the front of my shirt and I was forced into a kiss "I don’t You’re it"

"Vic and I are over" I said the sentence a second ti flickered in his eyes "I think you should tell hie to the words, but they still cutI’d rather do less

"No" I stood up and headed to the bathrooh command in his voice to cause me to look over "You tell uy since Iup with hi as a man, I can tell you that we are dense We s we don’t want to hear"

I frowned "Then he’ll just ignore everything I say" Perfect logic