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“Have fun with your Billy 20 at hoarette I stand up and look down at her She looks and smells like expired milk How could her words ever hurt me?

Yet they stir so like determination

“Oh, I will”

“WHAT IN THE EVER-LOVING fuck happened to you?” Ae and shock I could photograph that picture and it’d sell for millions The amount of emotion conveyed on her face is actually quite beautiful

“Would you believe me if I said I fell?”

“He’s hitting you?!” she screeches, her little hands reaching up to cup ood few inches taller than Amelia, but her er thanmother

“What brought you to that conclusion?” I deflect, deftly re to walk towards my car

“Oh, no you don’t,” she says, running past ht instomach emphasized by her tiny hands, and stares at e Can’t really blame her I’d kill anyone that did this to Amelia

I sigh, , Aot him handled”

Her eyes widen like balloons overfloith heliuood for the baby

“Please don’t take this the wrong way, River, but it sure as hell looks like you’re the only one being handled,” she replies, her voice significantly gentler I nod ht It doesn’t look like I have Ryan handled at all

“I have to play this s to conte

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sp; “I want you to stay with o back to that house”

I’ve been pretty good at avoiding Ryan since the night he proposed, threatened to kill my cat and raped me within hours of each other What was supposed to be the happiest day of ot down on one knee