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“Can you give o from there’ could look like?”

He was already thinking of ways to help e for Tressa To prevent a tornado fro their lives She didn’t have to see inside his head to know it She’d seen it enough tinize it Even just as aperson

“She could be required to go through soeain More likely she’ll be required to be assessed by a court-appointed psychiatrist And will be allowed only supervised visits until the court determines that Levi is safe alone with her”

“So they won’t arrest her or anything?”

“Not if she cooperates” Lacey broke off, knowing she’d made a mistake She’d just told an abused husband how to fall prey to his ex-wife’sto contact Tressa before Sydney had a chance to She knew it as well as she knew she’d take her next breath

Jem was a victim She’d known that before she slept with him Before she’d started to fall in love with him

She just wasn’t sure how anyone could help hi He hadn’t been able to recognize that his own son was being victimized

And if he didn’t see it, he was never going to be free to be in any kind of a committed, one-on-one relationship with anyone It would always be about appeasing Tressa—hiding things fro what he had to do to keep the storm at bay

It didn’t matter what Jeht care about her As long as Tressa had a hold of him, he wasn’t a free man, no matter how much he loved or needed someone else

Her heart shriveled in her chest She didn’t cry out Or shed any tears at all Not then She justknew

“One other thing” Jem broke into the silence that had fallen

“What’s that?”

“Can you confirht?”

“Of course not”

“I figured it out”