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“We settled the last of the claiain “It’s done I know you don’t want to talk about it, but I wanted you to know It wasn’t your fault, but we settled and accepted all of their terms just as you asked Now, you just need to settle it with yourself, Magnus It was an accident You weren’t at fault”

I sniff My hand tenses on the door handle, the veins traversing the bones leading to each finger in thick rivers My desire to turn the knob falters as the words tumble out of my mouth “Tell that to Sarah Templeton” My head starts to pound “Oh wait, you can’t, can you?”

I force my wrist to turn my hand

The click of the handle, the blast of air as I jerk open the door I feel like I’ from somewhere else The irony of the entire situation is that Sarah’s piece of shit hter died Found soainst o to trial, but I put my foot down We paid off that worthless bitch because there was no way I was letting Sarah’s nah the mud Her mother did jack shit for her until she was dead, then all of a sudden she was the grieving, long suffering, ure Sarah deserves so out of court was it kept both Sarah and the entire sad event

out of the media

I shoot off one final barb “Doesn’t feel settled to me”

Erik shakes his head and looks down, but I finally walk away I turn the corner out of his office away fro us all the forced smiles and averted eyes on my way out

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Her skin is the perfect shade of pink I i down in waves to brush the swell of her a tits, turned into a wild, fresh-fucked mess in my mind And all because of me

But unfortunately that’s all in my head More than likely, it will always be in ood chance that my perfect woman will never speak to me and there’s no way in this life I will ever look at anyone else It’s been a good six years since I touched a woman and until I can touch el until they put round

Thinking of hermountain road even more treacherous It divideshairpin turns become a deathtrap They’re already a bitch to ht steering on my delivery truck