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she asked.
    “Perfect, beautiful, but I thought I just saw Tai at the door.” She held onto his arm and turned her head that direction.
    “You don’t think she heard us?” she asked facing him again.
    He shrugged, “I can’t answer that.” Her head dropped against his chest. He placed his hands around her again and rubbed her back. His chin resting on her head.
    “I’m ready to finish the fall, beautiful,” he whispered. He felt her heavy sigh. It was all he needed. She wanted a relationship, but something was still holding her back. He had demons too, ones he wasn’t ready to share; so slow it was.
    Bethany
    She had just pulled up to Raiden’s house for dinner with Tai, and was thinking about the day’s events. That’s how she spent most of the day, thinking about really starting something with Jordan. Could she really do that again? Was falling possible? Was she really free? She didn’t have a clue to those questions.
    “Hey Beth.” She looked up as she was climbing out of her car to see Raiden walking towards her.
    “Thought you were leaving,” she fired.
    “We are, but I wanted to talk to you.” Great he hung around longer to talk with her.
    “Don’t talk to Tai about Kai.” She sighed. The truth was they had been talking about Kai, because in Raiden’s efforts to keep her safe he was leaving out things she should know.
    “What we talk about isn’t your business,” she resolved pushing past him and into the house and out towards the back porch.
    “Did he lecture you?” She smiled.
    “Look, I don’t care. If you want to talk about Kai, I’ll tell you.” Bethany returned Tai’s smile.
    “Not tonight. I have something else I wanted to know and I know he won’t tell me if I ask.” Bethany took a sip of her drink.
    “Ask then,” she replied setting down her drink.
    “Tell me about the night you learned about the arrangement.” Bethany swallowed. This was most certainly an off limits topic with Raiden. He was livid that night, and while he had accepted it, he wouldn’t want to relive that first night.
    “Good choice asking me,” Bethany chuckled putting some food in her mouth. She chewed her bite of food and thought of where to begin.
    “Well...” Tai pressed. Bethany chuckled as she swallowed.
    “Well, I’ve mentioned before we sometimes were a little wild.” Tai nodded when Bethany paused. “Okay, so when I was told I needed to go to Raiden’s house, I thought I was in trouble. I thought we were in trouble. For whatever reason, our dads scolded together, but then our moms got a hold of us after. My mom always waited till I got home and Melanie always waited till Lee was cooped up in his office again.”
    “Sounds amusing.” Bethany laughed and shrugged at the understatement.
    “Could say that. I knew though, when I walked into Lee’s office and saw my mom and Melanie as well that this was different. Raiden was already sitting down. I looked at him and he shrugged. We had partied hard the night before celebrating my sixteenth birthday, but we hadn’t done much.”
    “Whoa!” Tai spit out and Bethany nodded. “Right after your sixteenth?”
    “Yep, the day after,” Bethany deadpanned.
    “Shit,” Tai mumbled.
    “When I sat down it was clear that our moms didn’t agree with our dads,” she paused again.
    “Somehow I’m not surprised,” Tai laughed lightening the mood again. Bethany realized she was a little tense this was actually the first time she really talked about that night.
    “Needless to say when Lee told us, I was shocked and Raiden went so far off the handle. I’d never seen him like that and I haven’t since then. Not that bad, anyway,” Tai sighed.
    “I don’t want to ever see him that mad. I’ve seen him mad and that’s been enough.”
    “Don’t worry about it, Tai, he gets mad for sure, but thermonuclear takes a lot.” She nodded at Bethany’s answer.
    “Really, Beth?” A voice boomed.
    “She asked and you weren’t going to tell