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Color crept into her cheeks, and she hung

her head at her words being thrown back at her

“Malcolm, I didn’t mean it like that”

“How exactly did you eneral or not concerned when I see you’re obviously upset over so? Whatever I said or did upset you, and that is neverto ive me the silent treatment How does that help either one of us?”

She opened her ht caile, so lost

“Upsetting you isn’tmy truck

I watched her walk up the drive and enter the house without giving a single look back Fuck! That wo to drive me insane

The drive home allowed me tie Things were feeling more like a relationship at the tail-end of its life cycle instead of the beginning Hell, she’d been avoiding me since she left the hospital I still didn’t buy her excuse that she didn’t knohy she blacked out, but she shut down any and all attempts to talk about it

When Sandy had invited er didn’t want to see me, I didn’t want to force her But, at the saest ti that, we’d all enabled her to nother to re All I wanted was for her to let ether I didn’t think that was too ly a mountain to her

Chapter 16

Calida

Dad loadedinto the back of my car and shut the door “Are you sure you’re ready to be in that big ol’ empty house by yourself?”

I s him in “Yes, Daddy I told you I’ht here” Shawn laughed as I tickled his belly

“Still, what if soain? We still don’t even knohy you did”

“The doctors didn’t find anything wrong I’m fine I proave me contact demands”