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Until he’d realized that hating her for soood for anyone Least of all hier and hate to rule his life, he’d turn into his sister, and he wasn’t about to do that

No, the way out of this was to get help for Tressa Sydney had taken statements fro, to a Tressa with only court supervised visits for now And finally, three days after the ordeal had begun, it was done

“Can I coht?” Tressa asked as she climbed into his truck so he could take her home

She’d asked hiht it in all of their best interests that she be as calreed to do so

He probably would have, anyway It was the decent thing to do, given the circumstances

“You knowto be fir up in his life And most certainly not now that Lacey was a part of it

He hadn’t seen Lacey since Sunday He’d wanted the ce her room And he’d been focused on thein his bed while she lay in hers Her voice had been the last thing he’d heard before sleep Four nights in a ro

He figured that was long enough to form an addiction

“But I want to see hi wobbly “You’ve already said you’re working this weekend and I can’t have hi prior plans so someone from social services can be there And Sydney said Thursday’s too late to make those plans, at least this week, because the Santa Raquel office is so small and everyone is busy”

He could feel the stor It was only noon Levi’s doctor’s appointment for cast removal was at 1:00 pave him three hours before his date with Lacey

Kacey was leaving on Saturday and had been asking for more Levi time before she left She had a cast off party all planned for him

“How about if I bring hiets his cast off?” Je to have Tressa in episodiche had planned “You can be the first to celebrate with him”

Maybe they could turn the broken-ar healthy “It would be a good chance for you to apologize to hie to undo with her son Starting with acknowledging that she’d been the one who’d been bad, not hi to take him away from his father

“Okay” Tressa sat back, her head against the seat, watching the traffic in front of them “I don’t deserve you, Jem”

She didn’t have him, either Not anymore