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When Pick pulled away, he waved at et back"

After he left, I was still too leery to take a breath I couldn’t figure out why he hadn’t wanted Eva to go somewhere where he didn’t like one of his waitress’s boyfriends, but he hadn’t thought twice about leaving her here alone with e of character," Eva said,aloud or she was just reading lanced at her suspiciously She sentoff you You didn’t want to be left alone with us, but don’t worry, I’ll stop bothering you and asking you a load of questions Okay?"

I wanted to tell her she could ask anything she wanted to This was her ho in it But I was too relieved for a reprieve to voice any of that

"I will put you to work as soon as you’re finished eating, though"

And that’s what she did After one, she held Julian and instructed me as to which boxes to carry and where to take them

About the time I finished, Julian fell asleep on her shoulder and Skylar woke fro the other into the living rooh "Believe it or not, once upon a time I had them on a schedule where they slept at the same time, but not anymore"

I tried to see my own mother in her, perpetually exhausted, too busy to sit and just relax She’d always looked aged beyond her years, and sad So freaking sad Eva didn’t seey and youth about her that told me she thrived off the life she had

I openeddown to a fine art, but the front door opened and Pick returned

"Hey" Eva met him there with a kiss "How’d she take it?"

Pick sighed, his shoulders sagging "She wasn’t there Solanced at asp, Eva shook her head "Since when?"

Pick shrugged "No idea I didn’t stick around to find out" Growling out his impatience, he paced further into the rooh his hair, only to pause when he caught sight of rasped his arm "When’s the next time she’s scheduled to work?"

"Friday," Pick answered, keeping his gaze on me

"Do you think she’s okay?"

"She’d better be" He hitched his chin at me "I think we’ll start you at the bar toin our new bartenders on ladies’ night, anyway" His grin was secretive and aed, because it didn’t ht I started I was actually restless to start as soon as possible The sooner I et out of their hair

The rest of the night passed Both kids scurried around, providing so h school, except he never shared a single detail about the only person I really wanted to know about And I refused to ask about her, because it was best if I never learned where or how she’d turned out

But still, I wanted to know, and it itched at me that he didn’t even mention her, didn’t volunteer one stray cru up some old black T-shirts of Pick’s from back when he was a bartender at the very club he noned They were too tight on et my own set of clothes

Then Pick did an internet search onParker I was related to, but he did find out Speed had been the one to die in the fire, and Hash had overdosed on cocaine

When I went to bed that night, tucked away in Spider about my brothers, my sister, Bentley My parents I wondered where Rocket and Cobra were and worried about how painfully the others had died When I finally fell into a restless sleep, blood and sirens and s for help My father staring into the headlights of an oncoht ain, Parker"

I wokeit with sweat Once I realized where I was, I rolled flat onstars tacked to the ceiling untilcalmed