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“You shouldn’t have had to live like that at all”

God, he loved those words Soaked theht up And knew that, as she’d said, she wasn’t impartial where he was concerned

“Tressa admitted to what she’d done, ad She sent a letter tofull accountability for her inappropriate behavior”

“And she told you she’d never do anything like it again”

“That’s right”

“Has she?”

He hesitated She’d come close But “No”

“So last night, saying you whore around, when she knew you had a date in the backyard, you don’t think that was similar behavior?”

He could see how she’d think so “She was just having a rough night She’s fine now” Tressa was a pain in his ass, but he could handle her

Lacey stopped to pick up a shell and show it to him A perfect, unchipped half clae swirls outside

She put it in the pocket of her dress A memento of their date, he hoped The first of ether

“Has she ever been violent with you?”

“Of course not” He was a six-foot-tall one-hundred-and-ninety-pound ht and then sohed one hundred and fifteen pounds and couldn’t lift even half that

“She’s never thrown anything at you?”

Not at him There’d been the time she’d taken toast out of the toaster and thrown it across the rooainst the wall once