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While Pierce couldn’t be un to worry about Demi She’d been a bit distant It was nor, but she seee, which he didn’t like He tried to talk to her about it, and she blamed it on lack of sleep Dark half crescents under her eyes were a nora? With his concerns in the forefront, he knocked on the front door

“Hey” She leaned her head back and smiled up at him

“Hey, D We need to talk”

Her s him to enter the house

“I don’t like the sound of that”

“It’s pretty serious What’s going on with you? We said we’d be up front, and I know you’re hiding so me?”

“What? No How could you think that?”

“You’re distant, often unfocused e’re together I don’t knohat else to think Iinto this”

“I’ve been all in from the minute I decided to make us a reality”

“Then why have you been checking out?”

She wrapped her arms around her waist and shook her head “I don’t want to talk about it”

“Look where that’s gotten us”

“You’ll think I’m crazy”

He frowned and placed his ar you I’m here to listen”