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down her throat, easing all the prickly, scraping dryness.
“Where?” she croaked after. She wanted to know where she
was going to be living after her whole life changed again. She
prayed like hell it wasn’t New York.
“South Carolina,” Adalynn whispered.
Cassia didn’t realize she’d let out a long sigh of relief until
her lungs burned with it and her chest hurt. She didn’t realize
she was crying either until Adalynn lifted a hand and gently
wiped the moisture from her cheeks.
Chapter 11
Cassia
Cassia woke up to the sound of hammers and wild cursing.
It was pretty much the same thing she’d been awakened by
every single one of the past seven days that she’d been in
South Carolina. After spending another two days in the
hospital after she’d woken up to find Adalynn there, she’d
been discharged since she was doing so much better. She’d
still been sore as hell. Adalynn offered to help her pack her
things, but she’d declined. Since she didn’t have anything
worth taking, she put up ads on the local classifieds sites,
giving her furniture away for free. The remainder of her
things, the things she had acquired after selling off the goods
she’d brought from her father’s house, fit into two suitcases.
Adalynn had paid for their tickets to South Carolina, even
though Cassia didn’t want her to. She didn’t like to feel
indebted to another person for anything. It was bad enough
that Adalynn had pretty much bought her company for the
next month.
But why?
Why had she been keeping track of Cassia? She’d figured
