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Dalton: He keeps raets back Never seen him like this, man

I delete the texts and then setwheel "Sorry, but we can’t stop and eat Dalton says Asa had a breakdown and they’re on their way back"

"A breakdown?" Sloan says

"Yeah, so about his father? Apparently he beat him up at the casino"

Sloan looks out the"His father is alive?"

I glance over at her She doesn’t know about his father being charged for uess it makes sense that Asa wouldn’t tell her That’s not really soirlfriend to know

"He doesn’t know you’re with ry," she says

I hate that I’o back home when she needs to stay the hell away from there "Dalton says he’s pretty adamant that you be there Apparently he’s in pretty bad shape"

She sighs "That’s not my problem Why does Dalton know you’re with me, anyway? I don’t trust Dalton Or Jon Or Kevin"

"Don’t worry I trust Dalton withit onto ht I think there should be so up"

She nods, but she doesn’t say anything else on the drive ho face to face with an unstable Asa Jackson He’s bad enough when he’s in a goodto treat Sloan tonight

When we reach my car, I look around to make sure I don’t see anyone I parked a couple miles fro

Before I get out of the car, I pull her to h and it’s kind of sad Like she’s tired of saying goodbye like this

"How come it seems every time we take a step forward, we’re forced to take ten steps back?" she asks

I push a strand of hair off her forehead "We’ll just have to start taking bigger steps forward"

She forces a set to talk to you when you coht Or touch you"

I kiss her forehead "Me, too," I say "We should have a sign we can use in place of being able to talk tonight So subtle that only we’ll notice"

"Like what?"

I lift my hand and rub my thumb across my bottom lip "That’s mine," I tell her