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“Then why the hell ah to reveal my knees “And how do you explain that?”

“Like I said—I had to fight you off” He stood after his boots were on his feet

“Even if I was so drunk that I lostmind, ould you ever do this? We’ve never even been out on a date Why didn’t you just takeup in my eyes started to roll down my cheeks

“I heard what you said the other night about my brother and why you wanted to et a little darker as he narrowed his eyes “You wanted to lock hiive a shit about him”

“You don’t understand” My eyes opened wide and the tears started to roll down my cheeks faster “I have to marry your brother”

“That ain’t an option now He ht, but now that he’s seen what a little slut you are, he’ll never even consideryou” His dark expression remained focused on me

“You ruined everything” I rubbed ainst my cheek and wiped away the tears

“No” He chuckled and shook his head and started to stand “I fixed everything—everything that you tried to ruin The rooet the fuck out”

“Where are you going? Are you just going to leave me here?” I looked around the room and saw a clock that indicated I had two hours left before I had to go

“Yep” He nodded and walked towards the girl “Youlie in it”

The door sla the sheets against my chest and over my face I hated Grady for what he had done, but as my sorrow consumed me, I started to wonder if I could repair e, apologizing, and telling hiht I stared at the phone for nearly ten minutes, but there was no response from Dane I kneas up He never slept past seven and he usually worked out in thehours, even on the weekend His phone was never nored a call or a text e

When I didn’t get a response to e, I called him, but it went to voice —at least the parts I res went black was talking to Grady at histo a scout for one of the tea to Grady in the living roo married to hiin to remember

Please talk to me, Dane Please don’t believe what you saw

I loaded my social media accounts back up and used what little power that was left inall of the photos I had apparently uploaded the night before Soment and shock with everyone even more baffled than I was about how I ended uporst I appeared to be happy, but as soon as the voere said, he si h to get out of bed and slide back intodress It was dirty and torn in several places, but it was all I had to wear I didn’t even knohere the clothes I had been wearing the previous night ended up

I closed ht once I was out of the hotel rooh forhad been ruined and ivehis brother, Grady knehat ain after that was exposed

Why the hell can’t I re?

The man at the front desk looked at me with a little bit of concern, but he let et a taxi Normally, I would have taken an Uber, butto erase the evidence of ht outside the hotel hurt worse than what I had seen co around in lasses They were scratched and broken, but it was better than nothing I slid them on my face and waited for my ride to appear

Once it did, I crawled into the back of the taxi and gave the driver enoughwas so screwed up in ether Every bump the taxi hit made my body hurt and my stomach roar with disappointment I had never been blackout drunk before I hadn’t even drank ht prior to the previous one was spent with me curled around a toilet, but I remembered every moment of the ordeal The taxi pulled up in front of my house and I did the walk of shame to my front door The instant I opened it, I sawat me with concern

“Daddy” I walked across the room and wrapped my arms around him “I fucked up really bad”

Chapter 2: Grady