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For soht bothered him

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

IF LACEY DIDN’T love her sister so le her

“Face it, Lacey, you’re glad I did what I did”

She wanted to argue, but kneas pointless “Part of ry with you”

“I know, but that part of you needs an attitude adjustment”

“Offering to take Levi to the park while Jeo over the plans was overkill”

“To the contrary, it gets me out of here”

“I don’t need you out of here, Kace It’s okay I’m not twenty anymore You and I are connected at the hip, whichto see you, too If I can’t trust hi him?”

“So you admit it You do like him?”

“No! I’s I said when Ra It wasn’t about you Or o, and I can’t believe I brought it up last year I austed by and so sorry for the horrible and stupid and childish things I said”

She’d hoped, at least, that the oing off on her sister, her soul mate, when it was herself and the world’s reaction to her that had really had her upset

“But you were right, too,” Kacey said Her eyes clouded over as she tucked her heels up to her butt on the side of the hot tub, where they were ending their Saturday night with a glass of wine They’d walked back to the beach Watched a movie And still hadn’t been ready to turn in

Lacey’s next-door neighbor was out of town for the suranted unlimited use of the hot tub