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“That tie,” she said, sitting on the floor by her daughter

My brow lines “Why did you have to go to court?”

Looking down, she clears her throat “Just so in Myrtle Beach”

“OhStar’s former occupation “I’m such an idiot I’m sorry”

See to readlike that I just it was sort of a wardrobe ht say”

Blinking around, I try to place what that e

“They’re stricter than I realized on the public beaches”

“Ohhh!” It’s clicking into place when another knock on the doorat Elaine I head to open it “I didn’t scream that time”

“It’s the wine,” my best friend calls after me

She’s right I’ warht all I did was roll around in Derek’s king-sized bedI could call him We’d already used our one phone call, so I was left withhe still had his own cell, praying that he wasn’t being targeted I’d heard stories of prison justice At the same time, Derek wasn’t in prison yet, and Sloan wasn’t a helpless victi for pictures of me and Dex to send to him, and the request made me si about us; h extended periods of separation

Kenny, Slayde, and Mariska are at the door, and when I open it, Mariska pulls

“How are you holding up?” She studies olden-brown eyes full of concern

“It’s possible this is the worst thing I’ve ever had to endure,” I confess

“That’s saying a lot,” Elaine lass?”

“I’ll have so