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Heather
I broke the rules.
I talked about her.
There’d been an uneasy truce in the two days since then between Channing and me. We hadn’t talked about her anymore, but we both felt her. I knew we did. Channing was on edge more than normal, but so was I. It was probably the reason we’d gone at it like animals last night.
Sex was easier than feelings. Always. Forever.
I was leaving his place when Bren came in, already skipping on her first day of school. She had a bag of food in her hand.
I lost my footing, like I did almost every time she was around.
It wasn’t her fault.
She hadn’t asked for their dad to go to prison and for Channing to be her guardian. Despite the nonchalance and cold exterior, I had a feeling she loved her brother. But I remembered being in high school. I reme
