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I pulled into e Once the thick door was lowered, hiding h of relief Leaning ainst the seat, I closedhonest, I would have ad wasn’t completely nervousness

It was disappointment

While part ofinto Matt, I had been subconsciously willing him to appear Just one look, that was all I had really wanted One teeny, tiny look at what I had given up to keep hiiven er

Tears blinded me, and as hard as I tried to hold them back, one still spilled over my lashes I hastily swiped it away and sucked in a few deep breaths, hoping to calone, so I kneas probably at the office—or with hisas he stayed away We had never really been that close, but after what he had threatened Matt with, I hated him

Upstairs in rabbedlist, and it seerandparents’ old house, I felt like a prisoner I rown up in this house, but afterhome to me

The classes I was taking were boring as hell, so it was little

wonder that I fell asleep while trying to read theof the landline One of the cordless phones sat beside

“’Lo?” I mumbled, still half asleep

“Hey, girl!” A high, feuely familiar nearly ruptured lance at the caller ID

Campbell, R

Figured Steph was a pain in the ass, and I had only ever tolerated her in the past because she was the only friend my father would allow Her father was the DA, and my father’s best friend as far as I knew I hated him just as much as I hated my own father, but it wasn’t completely because of what had happened with Matt that made me dislike him so much Royce Campbell had always looked at me…that way I had always felt uncomfortable around the , and I had always felt dirty

“Hey, Steph,” Ito put a little enthusias miserably

Not that she actually noticed “I just saw your dad, and he told o out with ht”

“Really?” I was only half surprised that my father would ask her to take me out with her and her bitchy friend It was just one ht out, but with his lackey’s daughter to supervise my every move

But even as I kneas just a tool to keep ht out of the house to accept “Sure Give et ready”