41. Still care

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The kids ran into Demi's place to see their mom. Lamar made his way to the door. Demi came out to greet him. "Hey.. do you have a second?" She said to him and shoved him back outside again, closing the door slightly behind her.

"what is it?" He said with a frown.

"what is it?" He said with a frown

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"please speak to Chloe... You are the only person that can get through to her, you are the only person that she really listens to... She went out, got herself completely trashed and I've noticed marks on her, although she doesn't know that I have seen them, because she's trying to keep them hidden.... please, I'm worried about her..." she said.

"Where is she?."

"Upstairs, she rarely comes down.."
He shook his head and headed inside. He could see the kids were happy eating the cakes that Demi had baked for them in the kitchen, so he decided now was time for him to go and speak to Chloe upstairs.

He got to her room and he stood there for a second, before he knocked on the door. " Demi leave me alone...."

"it's me...." He said leaning on the wall next to the door.
Within a split second, the door was open, and she stood looking at him, her dressing robe wrapped around her and her hair down around her shoulders.

"Mar?.."

"I bought the kids back, and we did say that we needed to talk about the kids..." he said, not wanting her to know that Demi had sent him up to speak to her.

"Come in." She said and moved the pizza boxes, vodka bottles and mess so that he could sit down.

He looked around and just furrowed his brow. "Chloe what the hell... you need to tidy this shit up, the kids are back in the house... Don't tell me to see you like this all the time..."

"Once again, you're here to give me a lecture..."

"I'm not lecturing you, but surely you can see this kind of behaviour isn't normal... In fact, yo whole demeanour lately hasn't been normal... So for the sake of our kids and my fucking sanity, what the hell is going on with you!" He said raising his voice.
Her robe slipped open as she reached for something and he saw the marks on her neck and her face. "CHLOE!.."
She looked at him and the tears fell. She picked up a half empty bottle of vodka.

Lamar took it out of her hand. "Don't you even think about it when my kids are in this house... What happened to yo neck and yo face?" he pulled the robe further back and he could see the marks on her arms and her chest. "Chloe, you need to start telling me what the fuck is happening here?.."

"I SLEPT WITH SOMEONE!." She yelled and buried her head in her hands. "I was drunk, I thought I could handle him... He was a little too violent for me...

Lamar shook his head. "Wow!... so you went out and found the thug that you were looking for in my father right... this is what you want? You want to be smacked around, marked up and used... Well done.. you succeeded you got there..." he said angrily.

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