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Liz placed her phone to her ear as she walked the short distance back to her house. She couldn’t believe that had happened only one block from her house. That was the unluckiest thing that she had ever witnessed.
“Senator Maxwell’s office,” a woman answered through the phone.
He had someone answering phones at all hours of the night. What a life…
“I need to speak with the Senator. ” She was pretty sure her voice cracked.
“Who may I ask is speaking?”
“Sandy Carmichael,” she said, weakly turning the corner.
“One moment, Ms. Carmichael. ”
Liz waited a couple minutes, and then Brady’s voice came through the line just as she walked through the front door.
“Liz?” he asked. He sounded surprised, or maybe she was making that up.
“Brady. ” When she said his name, she broke down and the tears burst out of her eyes. The DUI had messed her up more than she had realized. What could have happened was scarier than what actually happened.
“Are you all right? What’s wrong?” he asked, clearly concerned this time.
Despite everything that happened, all she could get out was, “Who was the girl?”
“What?”
“The girl you were with at the town hall event?”
“Oh, Liz, did you see that?”
Was he confirming her fears? Was she one of many that he was doing this with?
“That was my sister, Savannah. ”
Liz froze where she was standing. His sister. Well, that changed things. “Oh,” she said softly.
“She lives with my parents, and I picked her up and brought her to the event with me,” he said.
“I wish I’d known…” she said wistfully, feeling childish.
“Why?” he asked, his tone lowering.
“I went to a frat party. ”
Brady was silent. Liz was pretty sure that was worse. She couldn’t handle his silence.
“A friend of mine was driving me home, and he got a DUI. I just walked home,” she said, her voice cracking again. She couldn’t believe Justin had gone to jail tonight. She would have to try to get ahold of him in the morning.
“Let me get this straight. You assumed I was with another woman. So you went and got trashed with some other guy who ended up endangering your life,” he said, his controlled tone damn near threatening Justin’s life at that moment.
“I’m not proud of myself!” she spat back in frustration.
“I don’t understand, Liz. I said from the beginning what this was. There are going to be aspects of the situation that you don’t like. You can’t go off and try to get fucked by some frat boy every time you get your feelings hurt,” he growled.
“I wasn’t trying to get fucked, all right?” she cried. “Justin is just a friend from school. He helps me at the paper. ”
“Every guy at that fucking school wants to have sex with you. Every one. ”
Liz ground her teeth in frustration. “You don’t know that. ”
