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“Tressa was ordered into anger hts And she was granted supervised visits”

“No charges were filed against her for child abuse?”

“It was like you said—there wasn’t enough there to prove anything Because, really, in each incident, an accident was involved”

And he was justifying Holding your child underwater to force hi bruises on his torso as you did so, was definitely actionable

But Jeainst that of a four-year-old One who re basketball with his mother in the pool after he learned to swi and having his mother save him

“Sowe’re still good for tonight?”

It wasn’t until he asked the question that she ad him to cancel Because Tressa would surely need him, after the trauma of the day’s events

It fit her MO Unless, maybe Amelia would be around The real estate attorney had been in LA all week, arguing a case for a brokerage company

“Of course we’re still good,” Lacey told him, and had to add, “I’ve missed you A lot” Because it was so true

“I’ve missed you, too, babe You have no idea how much”

She had an inkling Evidence pointed to the fact that she wasn’t the only one who’d fallen hard here She wanted to believe that

She just wasn’t sure how she fought the de a true partnership

JEM DID SOME double takes over the next couple of weeks, finding it hard to believe that life had finally become what he’d always believed it could be Kacey was back in Beverly Hills, back at work, but she caether as a fahts—both times at Uncle Bob’s at Levi’s request

And Saturday nights Kacey spent with Levi—“getting her baby on,” as she put it She wanted a ho for Levi was like Alcoholics Anony that she’d led, no matter how easy and convenient to fill lonely hours, was not the life she wanted