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Stanley, on the other hand, knocked roughly on the door

“Magnolia, I think it would be best if Harrison came down and talked to me alone I’ll send your mom up to you so she can make sure you’re okay” His voice was stern but not harsh, until he spoke to Harrison and it becaet your ass out of hter’s bed and downstairs Now”

“Oh shit,” Iaway and tears filled my eyes

“Hush, baby doll Everything’s going to be fine”

“Fine? Fine!” I squealed “How is anything ever going to be fine again? Mysex!”

“No, they saw us after we’d just finished,” he corrected

I pushed on his chest and scurried off thethe toYou were naked I was naked Your dick was inside me This is not hoanted to break the news to them”

“Maggie,” he snapped, snaggingyou have to break to them Does it suck that they found out this way? Yes Is it the end of the world? No Nothing’s really changed I love you You love ether, just like ill from now on”

“But my mom—”

“Your mom loves you and wants you to be happy She’ll coether”

Logically, I kneas right Plus,in love with her new brother-in-laas soht come to accept sooner than most parents would Hopefully But her new husband? Not so much “And Stanley?”

“He ht be harder to convince”—Harrison pulled his shirt over his head and stalked towardsthe size of the stick up his ass But I’ve seen the way he looks at yourin love with her will have softened him up a little bit”

“That hardly sounds optimistic”

He stole my lips for a quick, but deep, kiss “I loveto let him, or anyone else, stand between me and you”

“Agreed” I gripped his hand firmly in mine and reached for the door with ether”

I just wished it didn’t feel like ere off to face a firing squad

Chapter 11

Harrison

I opened the door to Maggie’s bedroo her hands She stopped suddenly and stared at us, wide-eyed When her eyesover her face

Sheto leave her behind “We’ll discuss this all together, Bunny,” I infor on this issue “I’ie to face either of you alone”

Bunny’s expression softened just the tiniest bit, but she locked eyes with Maggie and asked, “Are you okay?”

“I’ie assured her “This was my choice No one forced me or coerced me”

Bunny hesitated for a fewbetween us warily Then she turned and silently descended the stairs

Maggie looked up atwith unshed tears I kissed her lovingly and whispered, “Trust me, baby doll” Her lips tipped up and some of the fear receded

Keeping her hand inroo in front of the television across the rooie, he glared at me

“Bunny, would you please take Magnolia to another room so Harrison and I can talk?” he asked her caleneral de fire at me “She shouldn’t have to witness this, nor should Harrison be able to hide behind a child,” he spit

“No,” Maggie piped up “I’ain, that I a before I turned eighteen and it’s ti me like it”

Stanley’s expression becanolia But, you’re still too young for e of you” His brown eyes shifted to me and all the softness fled from his face “I’ve never been so disappointed in you, Harrison I always thought I raised you better than this I trusted you with e of an innocent girl!”

I’d had enough “Stanley, I’ to need you to shut it and listen to e have to say”

His lips pressed together in a straight line and his face flushed with anger, but he didn’t continue I nodded and led Maggie over to the love seat We both sat and I tucked her intofrom Stanley’s eyes

“I didn’t coie and that’s not what happened I fell for her the moment we met”—I held up my hand for silence when Stanley opened his mouth He harrumphed, but didn’t speak—“and before you accuse hteen”

“It was the saie interjected “I knew the day he showed up that I loved him”