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Oh od I bitemy eyes directly on her ass And just my luck, it's perfect Every bit of her body is perfect I sit completely still as I watch her descend the stairs

Where the hell did this girl come from? And where the hell has she been all my life? I curse the fact that whatever just happened between us is all that could ever happen Relationships never begin ith lies Especially lies like lances over her shoulder before she walks out the door and I bring hs and disappears out the classrooet her out of ht There's tooon this to be distracted by such a beautiful, perfect ass

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Chapter Three

Sloan

I finish the days ho I won't be able to concentrate once I step foot back in the house When I firstevicted fro onnot to mention all the other financial issues I dealt with We had only been dating two o

That was over two years ago

I knew based on the cars he drove and the size of his house that he had money What I wasn't sure of hether or not it was oldhe shouldn't be involved in I had no idea it would be both He hid it pretty well for the first couple ofhabits on the fact that he had a big inheritance I believed him for a while I had no choice but to believe hi up at odd hours of the night, and Asa only spoke to them behind closed doors, it beca and swore he only sold "har to find it somewhere else anyway I didn't want any part of it, so when he refused to stop, I left

The only probleo I crashed on a few friends' couches, but none of theback to Asa, but it wasn't my life I orried about It was my little brother's

Stephen was born premature, and with a lot offor his care, but when that was cut off, I couldn't risk hi sent back ho to one all of teeks when I had nowhere else to turn back to other than Asa Walking back through his doors and asking for his help was the hardest thing I've ever had to do It was as if running back into his ar my self-respect He let me move back in, but not without consequences Now that he knew exactly howhis lifestyle More and more people came over, transactions were out in the open rather than behind closed doors

Now, there are constantly so many people in and out of the house that it's difficult to differentiate between the people that live here, the people that crash here and coht is a party, and every party is htmare

Every week that passes, the aterous, and I want outpart-time on campus in the library, but they don't have a student worker position forlist, and I've been applying for other jobs, trying desperately to add to my escape cash It wouldn't be so hard if it was just myself I had to care for, but with Stephen in the picture, it'll take money that I don't have Money that I won't have for a while

In thelike I still oweit Don't get , I do love hilimpses of e're in private I love who I know he could be again someday, but I'm also not na&iu down the business in preparation to get out, I knoon't I've tried to talk soot the power in your hands and the money in your pocket, it's hard to walk away He'll never walk away He'll either do this until he's in prisonor until he's dead And I don't want to be around for either

I don't even try to identify the vehicles in the driveway anyrab ht of hell

When I walk inside, the house is eerily quiet I shut the door behindin the fact that everyone's out back at the pool I never get a chance for solitude, so I take advantage and put inI know it doesn't sound like fun, but for me it's my only chance to escape