Shattered Girl (Emmy)

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Is there anywhere we can look that is a little more secluded but still close enough to the university and city to make it manageable for everyone?" The guys all stopped talking to consider my question.

"We aren't going to find the type of seclusion we have here, but there are several areas we could check out that are only a twenty- to twenty-five-minute drive to the city and university," Patrick said, typing into his phone. Here, this is what I was talking about." Patrick slid his phone across the table to me, and I looked at the sight he had loaded onto his phone.

The information he had pulled up showed a smaller town, only a twenty-minute drive from the university. The houses that were listed for sale were all Large enough to our needs, and almost all of them had some amount of land, so while there were neighbors, they wouldn't be on top of us like in the city.

"I like this idea, are there more places like this that could work? I slid Patrick's phone back to him, and Jake leaned over to take a look.

"Yeah, I like that area; it's close to school but has plenty of privacy. Josh nodded his head in agreement.

Our discussion was interupted by the waitress returning with our food. We dug into our food, my moan of pleasure causing the guys to all stop and look at me. "What? It's good," I grumbled, ignoring Josh's short and focusing on my burger.

diner when I spotted a small second-hand store. When I stopped to look in the window, I saw that the space had been divided into small rooms, and each area held something different. The space that held my attention, though, was set up to look like

focused on exploring the space, lost in my own head, that I didn't even notice when someone walked up behind me. It wasn't until I had leaned over to pull a book from a lower shelf to examine it and a hand connected with a loud crack on my ass that I realized I wasn't alone. I spun around to find a grumpy Josh, muscular arms crossed over his

vanish without saying anything." Josh scolded, making me duck my head my heart feeling heavy in my chest. I became very interested in the patterned carpet covering the floor where

he saw my tear-filled eyes and trembling lip, he pulled me into a tight hug, pressing a kiss onto the top of my

wrapping me in a tight hug, and then running

motion.

I didn't mean to make everyone worry or to upset Jamie." I whispered into his

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not mad; I was scared, baby," Josh murmured against my hair as he pressed another kiss to the top of my head. I shook my head in understanding, then Josh was lifting my chin again until he could look me in the

this again, I will take you to the first private place I can find and spank that little ass of yours until you have learned your lesson. Do you understand? Josh still had his eyebrow cocked so 1 knew he

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he whispered before kissing my

in this, he led me out of the

I saw Jamie visibly relax, now that he had eyes