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Which means she hadn’t told Hudson Or her parents probably And I wasn’t about to tell Hudson that his little sister had spent ht in my apartment Which o"

"No, dude, I want you there Erica hasn’t seen you in a ­couple weeks either and she’ll be there Coh, I shook ht Let’s go"

Reagan--­August 25, 2010

I PULLED BACK fro together in confusion "Is Keegan not with you?"

"No, he ca out at his friend’s studio before dinner So he’s lad Erica had turned to hug my mom so she wouldn’t notice my expression I didn’t doubt she’d left Coen’s name out because of the way I’d reacted at lunch a ­couple weeks ago, and there was no way she could’ve known that I knew about Coen’s studio Because she didn’t know about us hanging out

No one did

Keegan wouldn’t bring Coen with him, would he?

Of all the days for Parker to lose my phone in the apartment while it was on silentwhy today?

"Mom, you okay?"

I looked down at Parker and plastered a smile on my face "Of course I a on twenty "You look scared"

"I’m not scared, honey Are you excited to see--­"

"Uncle Keegan!" he shouted, and darted past me

He won’t be here He won’t be here

"Duchess"

Fuck, he’s here

I turned and couldn’t figure out if I wanted to step away fro him, or if I wanted to close the distance between us so I could feel theto fill hts

"Have you not been gettingyou that I was co"

"Parker lost ht in staying away fro closer to him, and it physically ached to keepthem around his waist

How had this happened? Friday had beenwell, it hadn’t been what I’d expected it to be when I’d gone over there I hadn’t been expecting our kisses I hadn’t been expecting to get so lost in him that I wouldn’t want to leave But what I really hadn’t expected was for this arrogant man to somehow creep his way intotexts froht because I knew I’d get to talk to Coen until I fell asleep