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"Shit, no I don’t know! I told you, it just all cae me Your cunt of a wife refused to let you see her or your kid, and you juh hoops to be able to see hi she demanded of youand at the time, you couldn’t have even been positive he was your da spin this around onto an and Parker! With my situation, Ito see all the responsibility that co it on you, I’h we all thought you were fking insane Now I’ this my way Just because we chose to handle situations differently doesn’t mean you can chew , but his tone wasn’t ain to coirlfriend up I wasn’t about to let her go through that alone, no ly went into a relationship with Reagan knowing she had a son and trust issues Then when it started getting serious and you had a moment of panic, you left Totally Different"

Of course they were different I just needed so to try and justify what I’d just done

"What happened to ‘I will never quit,’ huh?"

My brow furrohen I realized what he was saying It was froan, ot into, if I broke up with the girl, you’d use that shit against me? Question me as a man and soldier? Fuck You Saco"

"No, and you know I’m not From what you and Hudson have said, and what I’ve seenI know this isn’t just a relationship for you This is your future, and you’re being a bitch because you had a et to you Do you think I don’t have days where I’onna fk up? That Tate could have a better dad thanto leave uy who not even a week ago claiht Hudson told me about that too, assle" There was a beat of silence before Saco sighed "He’s not your blood, but that’s your son From the way you said that, I know you don’t even believe the shit you’re saying"

I didn’t, and I wanted to die for even letting the thought cross ht, and the next day, in etI’d been the one to get scared and leave theet o back totheether were hitting me hard

I hadn’t slept for ht before I’d woken in a panic, completely drenched in sweat And this time, it hadn’t been flashbacks of htmare, or dreamjust the sense that I’d physically lost both Parker and Reagan and couldn’t find the rabbed one through with it and she’d never tried to get ahold of rabbed for it quickly Disappointh an’s My thureen

"Hello?" Nothing came from the other side "Saco, you there?"

A pained cry sounded, and I looked at the screen onto hireeted ain, his strangled voice caone?" Panic filledHudson or Reagan would have been the one to call one--­it’s all one?"

"Tate," he finally choked out

When he didn’t say anything else, and all that met me was hard sobs, I asked, "She took hiroan that didn’t even sound human left him "I killed him I killed him--­it’s my fault--­Tate’s dead Oh God, he’s dead! I killed led to find my couch to sit down This had to be soht?

"Fuck!" he roared until

"What happened?" I finally , and he died I don’t--­I don’t--­why couldn’t it have been, he needs to be okay, I’ll do anything Anything, you hear me? God damn it! Take me instead!"