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I'd go looking for a job tomorrow so I could be free of Spencer, no matter what happened I could handle a second job if that was all I could get Tips were good so I hoped I could afford to find a house to share or a bed-sitting rooh with his threat I'd hate to leave Kirkland House because it was a plum placement I would hate to lose my place there

But thewas that I had a tuition scholarship which paid for my classes and books I'd have to scramble to find a place to live if Spencer did cut me off Once I enty-one, the trust fund would be under my control, and I couldn’t wait for that I'd be completely free of Spencer at that point

I could ask for h shifts to afford room and board or rent and expenses

I fell asleep to that calculus—hoping I could afford to h on his threat

The next day, I woke up sore froht before It was a pleasant soreness, at least to in I had a bath and then went toabout Spencer and his econoht back to me all too soon, when Spencer showed up atatover the next day's material

The knock at the door interruptedthe distance to the ed inside, wearing his business suit, his briefcase in hand

"What are you doing?" I said, angry that h

e felt that he could just co first

"I'm here to save you from yourself," he said and stood by my desk

"What do you mean?"

"I want to show you so," he said and reached into his ht about your boyfriend"

"He's not ry that Spencer was back

"Look at this," he said and handed me a file "Read it over Maybe this will convince you he's a thug, and no good for you if you want to everof yourself"

I took the file and opened it, thuraphs Soh there that I could get the gist

It was a police report about an assault that happened over a year earlier The raphs had been beaten al broken, his arm broken, and his face beaten so badly, his eyes were swollen shut