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“No,” she replied

“Are you scared of loving us again?”

“Not necessarily”

“Then what is it?”

“I’m afraid I’ll use you and then I’ll leave you”

He studied her face She was as serious then as s

he’d ever been Her brutal honesty shocked him She certainly knew herself better than he understood her In fact, what did he really know about Morgan at all now?

“I don’t want to hurt you, but I need to say soht at the moment, I love crystal more than I’ll ever love you or Grant I know you don’t understand I wish you could” A second or two later, she said, “Scratch that I hope you never know the hell I’ve had to endure because of meth”

“What happened to the wo back?”

She shrugged “My opinion changes as s vary Meth addicts stay in emotional turmoil”

“I’ in the bathroom “Maybe now you’ll understand why you aren’t permitted to mention meth or any of its street names”

He snatched her away fro her completely free of the shower stall Then, he hoisted her over his shoulder and flayed her as he walked toward the bed Once there, he duuttural tone, he said, “We have a few rules It’s time you heard about them”

Grant was officially on her nerves He had it in hieneral pain in the ass, but this was too much He wasn’t just a pain He was an ass

When he finished explaining what he called severe offenses and es of punishment, he said, “Now, because you mentioned crystal in the shohat kind of punishment will you receive?”