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.

were wandering down a tree-lined street a couple of blocks from the 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

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

for a reason, and he can't guard your body if you 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 I was standing Guilt and embarrassment made tears threaten to spill from my eyes, but I bit the inside of my cheek, fighting to hold them hack. I was tracing the lines of the carpet with my eyes, when Josh reached out, cupping my chin and moving my head up until my

exhaling a shakey voice around the lump that had formed in my throat when he began scolding me. When he saw my tear-filled eyes and trembling lip, he pulled me into a tight hug, pressing a kiss onto the top of my head. I wrapped my hands around his trim waist, holding fistfuls of

baby girl, what am I going to do with you?" Josh said wrapping me in a tight hug,

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be mad at me; I didn't mean to make everyone worry

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stepped outside with Josh, I heard several relieved sighs, and I saw Jamie visibly relax, now that he had eyes on all