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He’d never heard Ca down at her was killing him He wanted her with all his heart “Erica, what do you want to tell me?”

“Please, can we sit on the bed?” she asked sweetly

He could feel her shaking against his body “Of course”

“Please listen and don’t stop ”

He could feel her agony in the very fiber of his being Pain was so he understood “Erica, I’ll do whatever you ask”

“It happened after my parents died…”

Erica leaned into Dylan, exhausted fro him the dark truth of her rape Cam sat on the other side of her on the bed This here she belonged With theed or not, they

were her life now She wasn’t going to give up on the up on herself either

Dylan brushed the hair out of her face She looked into her own reflection on the lenses of his shades How did he see her after hearing about her past?

“Say so, Dylan,” she said

“I’h all of this If I had known, I would’ve killed the motherfucker”

“No one knew Just me and Mr Boyd” She closed her eyes “I don’t think I’ll really ever get over it The asshole died before I could confront him It feels unfinished to me”

“God, you are so strong, Erica Colelasses and tossed theood enough for you, baby”

“That’s bullshit, and you know it”

“No It isn’t I’ve done things that you can’t even iine”