21 Avery I barely recognized the daring, brazen woman who suggestively told Gage she wanted to have her way with him, but the urgency with which he drove toward his apartment made me think that she might just know what she was doing. My nerves kicked into overdrive as he rounded the final bend before his apartment complex, but I refused to back down from the opportunity for a night of n***d fun spent in Gage’s bed. The fact that he had tried to warn me away proved that my gut was right about him being a good guy at his core. I still wasn’t sure what he’d done to be sent to prison, but honestly, I didn’t think I cared––as long as it wasn’t too bad. Without him, Scout wouldn’t be with his parents tonight. We still had a battle ahead of us to make that a permanent fix, but Gage was the on

