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SORREN: I know what I want, Sunshine, and it’s you.

SORREN: I’ll earn your trust but you have to let me.

RHEA: You know I trust you.

The ideathat I don’t trust him is absurd. Sorren has been in my life for close to two decades.

SORREN: Your heart, Rhea. I need you to trust me with your heart.

There wasno way I could respond to that because he is right—I don’t trust him with my heart. Not yet.

Our conversation simply reaffirmed the doubts I’d had since waking up, and I hated that just as much. I wanted to feel his weight pressed against me and I wanted to be worshipped like no one else had ever done before.

But I also wanted a love like my Mama and Daddy’s, and while I believed I could have that with Sorren, I just needed him to believe it too.

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SORREN

OTTO: Rhea looks happier today

CASE: Agreed

WAYLON: I don’t want to know

WAYLON: Obviously I want her to be happy

OTTO: Obviously

WAYLON: But no details

CASE: Pot meet kettle

WAYLON: Shut up

HANK: So glad we don’t have to kill you

OTTO: Tanner did you bring one of our matching shirts to your training?

OTTO: You still like them right?

OTTO: You never want to hang out anymore

SORREN: Tell me why I’m in this one again

WAYLON: It concerns you

SORREN: Apparently not as much as Otto’s concern over his bromance with Tanner

CASE: Heh you said bromance

Tanner’s eye twitches with each message that comes through as he wrestles his cell from his pocket.

“Oh for fuck’s sake,” he grumbles as he reads them and then glares at me.

TANNER: Otto I saw you right before I left.

TANNER: You literally brought me a new one so that I could pack it

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