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After waiting until the engine was ready, she put the car into drive "That Audi was really the only thing Ithe sunned it Then I remembered what had happened after we’d parked it

Yeah, it had been a sweet ride

"Lots of good inity in it Was proposed to in it"

I didn’t realize I’d clutched ainst an didn’t cru apart as her words echoed through my head and bruisedlot across the street from the club and Felicity opened the driver’s door

"I’m sorry," I said so quietly I kind of hoped she didn’t hear lanced back "For what?"

"For not being able to keep all the proht"

The only promise I knew for sure that I’d kept was that I still loved her, for all the good that accomplished

"I’m sorry, too," she murmured "I’h I know you really could"

After she got out, shut her door, and stalked away, I stared after her, aching and wishing I really could return to being the Knox she’d once known

But he was dead

"No, I can’t," I whispered and finally got out of the car too

It was a busy night, thank God I worked the bar with Noel, who ree with Pick’s decision to ether Then he warned ret it Other than that, business was too hectic for us to chitchat Asher’s band played, and the number of female fans he’d collected in the past feeeks made the place more crowded than I’d ever seen it before They chanted for hiirl in the Incubus shirt, but he absolutely refused Instead, he played soether, taking her orders to Noel I had to adrateful that she was finally keeping it