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Crawling out of bed, I grabbed my phone to send him a text.
Allegra: Just wanted you to know I was thinking of you.
I poised my finger over the send button. Then erased the message and slammed the phone to the nightstand. Four days wasn’t long enough to start getting clingy. I’d waited for two years. I could wait a few more weeks.
Crossing the hall, I knocked on Deidre’s door.
She didn’t respond.
I knocked again. “Hey, Dee, it’s me.”
When she didn’t answer, I opened the door.
Deidre sat at her desk with her buds in her ears. Her gaze flashed to me.
“I need to get out of the house. Come with me.” I leaned against the doorjamb.
“I…uh…I can’t.” She tucked her hair behind her ear. “I’m going to game with Lanny and Emilio.”
I lifted a brow, then stepped into her room and closed the door.
She slammed her laptop closed as I approached. “What?” she asked.
“You’re lying to me.”
“No, I’m not.”
“Now you’re lying to me about lying to me.” I reached to open her laptop.
“Stop,” she screeched and jerked the computer into her arms.
“Deidre, tell me what’s on that computer.”
“None of your business.”
I lowered to the edge of her bed. “You can trust me with your secrets. I know you go into online chats and lie about your age.”
Her eyes widened. “It’s just a gaming forum,” she snapped.
“As long as you’re only online, I won’t tell. But you have to be safe. No camera access and no meeting anyone in real life. Do I need to remind you about what would happen if Santi found out?”
She glanced at her lap. “No.”
“I think maybe I do. Dee, he’ll kill anyone who touches you. You can’t have a boyfriend.”
She sank her teeth into her bottom lip.
“Come here.”
She scooted off her computer chair and sat next to me on the bed.
“You can’t have a boyfriend in real life. But you can have friends.”
“Like Knox?”
“No, Dee, not like Knox. You know why.”
“Because he’s Irish.”
