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Sex—not just any s*x, but mind-altering, universe-expanding s*x—broke some kind of dam between her and Lucas. All of a sudden they couldn’t stop talking to each other. They talked on the phone during free moments on the water. When they couldn’t talk, they texted.
They talked while Ruby was in her art class or immersed in her math books or playing cards with Hunter. They talked while Lucas was cleaning out his father’s accumulated piles of tools and cars and junk.
Lucas told her about his father—the rough and the good.
“Sure, he nearly drowned me—”
“Just a minor detail—”
“I think maybe he meant well. He wanted to teach me, and he taught me a lot. He always stood up for the underdog. He would get into fights over s**t people would say about the Natives. He used to live in the bush
