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I glared at hih the mist I couldn’t contain “Don’t you have some squats to do? Barbells to lift?”
He laughed, albeit tightly As thoughshredded to the core over another of Dane’s absences shredded him as well
A I’h”
Dane kissed me on the cheek “Play nice so Amano doesn’t quit on us”
As if that would ever happen The man was the epitome of devotion But I said, “I’ll try”
Once again, I watchedfor his safe return
I spent the first week restlessly prowling the house I left CNN on every TV, in every rooe of Bent’s suicide and the indictments Wild speculation Tons of theories and a lot of political strategists, lawyers, econo the Billionaire Effect—as it’d been dubbed—on our society and globally They brought average Joes into the studio to relay their hardships during the ’08 recession and how livid they were to possibly face another hit because those in power could influence change to their advantage, leaving theout to dry
This had to grate on Dane’s nerves as he watched, too Wherever the hell he was
This was exactly what he fought to keep fro
I soaked up every tidbit I could, latched on to every estiin The cli to factor in, since the society’s netas riddled with politicos and world leaders—whose names were slowly leaked For better or for worse
I wasn’t sure how all of this impacted our country or others, but tensions were definitely high There was a lot of finger-pointing going on and endless he said, she said
I browsed for iteround I had a stack of catalogs to peruse, and I relied onthe the options staring me in the face I’d eventually choose a theh samples
Unfortunately, baby planning didn’t fully occupy my mind I spoke with my dad only once on the iPad Dane called on the endless stream of disposable phones Amano provided He destroyed each of the
Though Wayne Horton knew about the creek house, I was 999 percent certain there was no way he’d ever get through our gates or over our fences That, however, didn’t ood at it Oddly, everything in our lives had become disposable because of him
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