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"Ok" She s in the world I wouldn’t do to put that smile on her face every day for the rest of my life

"What can I make you?"

"Hmmm," she thinks about it for a minute and then replies, "An omelet"

My eyebrows rise "For dinner?" I ask incredulously

"It’s not dinner time" She looks at the clock It reads six pm "Oh, it is dinner tih "Ok fine, and omelet it is"

The smile is back on her face She slides her hand behind my neck and pulls ," she whispers I close the space between us and pressto killwickedly, she jumps of the counter and I slap her butt She walks down the hallway and shi behind her

"Minx," Ius o so whites to a bowl and start whisking it until its light and foamy I add some spices and herbs that I knoill make it taste delicious

"Grayson"

I spin around and see Huntley standing at the mouth of the hallway She has ?" My voice is thick with concern The girl who left the kitchen less than fifteenhere now

"Brody called," she whispers, her voice shaking "I answered your phone"

I s hard "What did he say?"

The tears fall down her face and I walk over to her I wipe the tears off her cheeks and gently ask again, "What did he say baby?"

"It’s Deo Now"

Demi?

Huntley must see the confusion on my face because she continues, "She’s been…hurt Tommy, he…" A sob escapes her mouth and I wrap my arms around her She feels so much smaller when she’s this upset Panic sets in and I worry about what ht’ve happened to De hurt pulls at o now"

We dress in silence, our food forgotten Within thirty minutes we stop outsideup the stairs before I can stop her

A bad feeling settles in the pit of h the front door, which has clearly been busted open, and stop when I see that the living roo on the couch with his head in his hands He looks up and his face is red and wet fro I’m momentarily shocked It’s the first time I’ve ever seen him cry

"What happened?" I take a seat next to him on the couch

While I wait for hie aroundall over the floor The cushions are strewn everywhere, like there was a scuffle of so by Brody’s cut brow and swelling eye, there ht

"It was To and he clenches his fists "He ca for Deot hootten to Demi" His voice breaks as he says her name