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“I’ve already signed the pauper’s affidavit andinto debt to save me”

“But you’re innocent”

The look he gave her was so cold that for a second he was so to teach you in the end Cynicis is over you won’t knohat to believe so you’ll believe in nothing That will have been ift to you”

“I love you, Dallas That’s what h”

“My mom loved my dad until the day he killed her”

“Don’t even think about co yourself to him”

“You’re going to hear all about it before this thing is over, how he abusedto say itto say I had sex with Cat, that I—”

Vivi Ann pressed her hand to the glass “Touch me, Dallas”

“I can’t,” he said, and she could see how that adry “Love isn’t a shield, Vivi It’s time you saw that”

“Touch my hand”

Slowly he brought his hand up, pressed his palainst hers All she could feel was the slickness of the Plexiglas, but she closed her eyes and tried to reainst hers When she had the memory close, and could hold it to her chest, she opened her eyes “I’m your wife,” she said into the receiver “I don’t knoho taught you to run, but it’s too late for that now We stand and fight And then you coet me?”

“It lass, talking into that phone, trying not to cry”

“Just don’t pull away I can take anything but that”

“I’m scared,” he said quietly

“So am I But I want you to reot a wife and a son who adore you”