Matt reached back and without waiting for me to protest, he draped his sweater over my shoulders. His scent, a potent combo of fresh air and soap, env...loped me. ‘Better?’ I nodded again, feeling very, very warm as I pushed my arms into the sleeves. My fingers barely peeked out from under the cuffs. I glanced up to find Adele watching me with a shrewd smile. Nate played a few more songs, building from a slow start to more raucous tunes. He played everything from rock to folk to country,. I'd be damned if I'd let any of these assholes see me cry.When they finally let me out, I had no financial aid, no place to live and no prospects. And of course, I had a giant pile of hospital bills I hadn't a hope of paying. My parents, as I said, were a couple of pecan farmers and they sure as hell didn't have any savings. We lived paycheck to paycheck and every spare dollar went into my college fund. That fund quickly disappeared though, and I had to get a job on my newly healed legs.I ended. Vals stopped talking. She would have continued to speak if it did not look that they reach their destination.‘The Earthly Crater... ‘ Zax got an ounce of understanding the moment he laid eyes on it.It had a circumference of forty seven kilometers and was thirteen kilometers deep from the bottom of the sea, which left Zax stupefied and wondering whether it is a collapsed cave from New Earth that got sealed by rocks and sand or goes between the network of tunnels and caves?The number of experts,. “Carl, no--”Smack! He backhanded her, and she fell to her knees, her face nearly hitting the coffee table. She could see several bottles of liquor on it, mostly empty, and the remainder of a line of white powder on a mirror, which explained Carl’s lack of restraint.Then her face was shoved forward into the dirty carpet and she felt her bathrobe being flipped up onto her back. Her bare ass was hanging out now!“Noo!” she cried, but her voice was muffled by brown shag carpeting, long past its.