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Ashley is taking her bath. She spends longer time in the bathroom than she usually does, but it's not because she wants to tend more to her body, but because she wants to drink.

Each time the water drips down the drain, she drifts into thoughts.

Her conversation with Mrs. Goldwater comes up in her head again and again.

She has to do this, she knows that she doesn't have another choice.

Mrs. Goldwater is right. If Quinton had wanted to save her from going to prison, he would have fought for the money, but he is not doing that.

If she wants to avoid jail, she has to fight for herself, she has to do what Mrs. Goldwater has asked of her.

With that in her mind, she turns off the faucet and grabs a towel.

She doesn't look at him, but she knows that he is looking at her.

She wraps it around herself as she goes back to the room.

Quinton has changed out of his office clothes, he is wearing pajama bottoms and he is going to bed.

She sits in front of the mirror and starts her night r
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