“Are you sure you have to go? I don’t think it’s safe. It was that day today and when I returned home from school to pack, Analise spoke her first genuine words to me in nearly a month. And I promised Garrett that Friday night to stay with him for an entire week the next Monday. Everyone had gone, David including, but Analise stayed home. It wasn’t long before Garrett had extended his first home welcoming. I heard enough to know that she was planning some benefit or banquet event. She turned back to the television with her wine and then her phone started lighting up. My mother had been gleeful when she declared that was ironic timing. There’d been a hurry order placed on the divorce hearings and she was excited when she exclaimed the divorce would be final around Valentine’s Day. Or-well-she was going to be Analise Summers Kade at the start of the summer. A week later my mom returned to her tea drinking, dress wearing, and fake ways that she’d taken up when we moved into the Kade mansion.Īnalise Summers Strattan was back. I didn’t hear a word from my mother for three days after that and whatever James had been telling her, it must’ve worked. It seemed like he was always waiting, but when my mom started to quiet down, he scooped her up in his arms and whisked her from the room. As she had done that, Mason and Logan both bent over in laughter.

When she had picked up a wine glass, she hesitated and set it back down.

And when he gave me a key, extended his wish that I’d stay with him every now and then, Analise had flipped a lid. He moved two houses down from James Kade’s house. When my bio dad had decided to move closer and get to know me, no one had known how literally he meant it. The note fluttered down as I let go of it and turned to survey the house. There’s a tub of condoms in your bathroom. And then I saw a note left on the counter and grabbed it. As I glanced around and skimmed where his office was, I knew I didn’t need to look further. It was a large room with granite countertops and a steel-encased grill in the middle of it all. When I let myself into Garrett’s new house, I dropped my two bags in the foyer and walked to the kitchen.

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