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I’ to keep her calm "Yeah, I need to calm the little one"

He nods "She’s stable I think she’s had too much to drink, but we’re not sure that she hasn’t taken so else?" I ask, s Itone, I take Macy into the kitchen I can’t keep leavingto happen I can’t trust that Lena is able to take care of her I can’tI just can’t I do the only thing I can think of, hter until I deal with Lena

I lift my phone and I call my mother

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NATE

"You can’t keep doing this," I say, pacing up and down beside Lena’s hospital bed

She sighs and rolls to her side, sipping a juice "It was a er rises to boiling point, but I squash it down I can’t talk about this with Macy sitting in the corner

"There’s fun," I grate out, "and there’s taking it to the next level You could have been killed--or worse, so could have happened to Macy Hoould you feel if so flashes behind her eyes

"Why are you even here, Nate? We both know this relationship is da oing to leavewith tears

Shit

"Ishit isn’t good right now Lena, and"

"Please don’t!" she cries "Please, I’ll do better I love you, Nate; don’t tear our fa toscaresa deep breath "I think you need to sort your shit out before we can work out where to go from here I don’t think you should have Macy while you do that I’ her to ive you a chance to pull yourself out of this sluood idea," she says, her voice low