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“I kicked her out, which was an asshole thing to do, and then I proceeded to get drunk and stoned and anything else that I could do in order to forget that look on your face You were just one more person I’d screith…one h his voice reverberated with anger, his touch was gentle, soothing on her temple

“One her fashion I took it one step further I screith the one person who had always been there for randfather”

“Shane, let’s not…we don’t have to talk about this right now”

“I do,” he said suddenly

He sighed heavily and closed his eyes For the longest time he didn’t speak and when he did she winced at the pain that laced his words

“After what happened between us, I just kind of lost it Even Logan was disgusted in ing out with the Shelton brothers and we all know they’re bad news At the tihts and being total dicks Now I know they were just as pathetic as I was”

The dead space inside Bobbi, the part of her that was responsible for so rimaced

“I don’t knohat set ht I’d been accepted to the Academy of Art but there was no way in hell I could afford the tuition so I knew that dreaolden boy while I was the fuck up Again, no excuse, but at the ti nuts”

He paused

“I don’t re” He frowned “I drove, if you can believe it, and it’s a goddah and drunk” A groan slipped from his lips and he ran a hand across the stubble on his chin

“I woke up on the floor withover me and a couple of cops on either side of hiht in the studio where he used to let my mother paint God, how he loved her Sometimes, I think he loved her more than he loved his own son The roo on, a self-portrait, was still there on the easel, as if she was going to walk into that room and pick up her brushes”

He shuddered and his voice lowered “It was the only thing that I didn’t…”

“Oh Shane,” she whispered No one really knehat had gone down the night Shane was arrested All that had ed with several offences and thrown in jail

“It was the only thing I didn’t destroy” His voice was harsh now and Bobbi winced

He sat up and brought her with him and in that moment Bobbi Jo would have sold her soul to erase the pain in his eyes