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I put the shirt on as we rushed out of our room, and didn’t realize it was inside out and backward until ere in the hall Heat flooded my cheeks, and I wanted to crawl into a corner and die alked into the living roo my shirt and sports bra Folded

"I believe you lost this," she said in her thick drawl Her wide eyes glanced to Declan, and then she pointed to his shirt on my body "And I believe you lost that, son"

"Mo fro to see you todayalso wasn’t expecting you to just walk in"

"Now, is that any way to talk to the wo you?" Linda took in a steadying breath as her eyes bounced between the two of us "I wanted to see what you did with your new place, as any lass of sweet tea before you start showin’ onna pretend like the last fewof her eyes that she wouldn’t forget about what she’d walked in on, what she’d heard--just as ouldn’t

"I’ll get it," Ithe tea

I let loose a shaky breath once I was standing at the counter with my back to both of theatherto overwhel it nearly impossible to keep the she shouldn’t have was nothing Nothing compared to the betrayal that sat low and heavy, and burned white hot in my chest Because for a second while Declan had devoured me, it had been there

The feel of buzzed hair beneath ertips

Eyes so dark they looked black

A wicked sht with hied to invade lasses that I’d unpacked not long before, and guilt ate at hts of hiers snapping in my face and looked at my best friend "Yeah?"

"You just coain" Taylor’s tone was full of worry, and I hated hearing it "Do you want to call it for today?"

I looked around at the litter, and letter and nufor arten class "No, no Sorry, I ," she countered teasingly

"Not Anyway, thank you for helpingready fora week from tomorrow"