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He just sat there

“Don’t you like me anymore?”

He nodded

“Do you like Lacey?”

He nodded again

“So what’s the problem?”

“If I tell you, she canKacey straight in the eye His lower lip treaze on Lacey

Had Tressa told hi to take hi Lacey for help?

Either way, she was going to get it for him

So to stop until she knew for certain that Levi Bridges was not being abused

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

JEM WAS SITTING out back with the fountain on at the fish pond Sunday when his cell phone rang

Levi was asleep, exhausted from the weekend at Lacey’s The ain, and a third time

His son was safe He didn’t want to deal with Tressa And there was no one else who’d be calling hiht

Bridges Construction did not work on Sundays Ever It had been part of the policy under which he’d gone into business for himself