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“Fuck Sorry, Red,” he says sheepishly

I grin as I lean down and kiss hiain before I climb off his lap and he makes a face “It’s not like you won’t have another round in you, Davidson”

“You know h as I cuddle up next to him

Jori clears his throat nervously as he runs his hands over my hair

Here it coh

“Red?”

“Yeah?”

“I have to tell you so”

He pulls away from me, sits up, and pulls the sheet over his lap, his face in his hands as I sit up next to hiently on his back

“Tell me,” I say softly

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He runs a hand back through his hair and sighs, resting his arms across his bended knees

“Alright There’s a reason I brought you here Today”

I run oing He doesn’t need ht nohatever he has to tell

“The week before Hoyt got arrested foruone to the house to see you, but you weren’t there Again,” he says, his voice turning as bitter as the color of his eyes “Anyway, I snuck into your bedrooot really scared, you know? Istared down by Hoyt Fucking Blackburn, but he wasn’t angry with me He just shook his head and told me to climb back out and meet him by his truck” I smile at the odda almost aso to shit soon because he found so to talk to her about it We ended up here He told me that you were lucky to have a friend like ether Obviously this isn’t what he meant, but I think he knew,” he trails off for a moment as he blows his breath out “So we kinda just sat in his truck outside of the Inn and he talked and talked Asked rades were, what I thought of living with Millie He even told me that he was proud of me Me, Red No one had ever been proud of me before you, but he was too, and he admitted it”