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"Hell, I know that" Pick sent me a dry look "I know that better than you do But it’s not healthy to bottle it in either You need a venting syste lot, I focused on the building he’d broughtlessons in the

"I’lanced across the interior of the car Had he lost his mind?

"And you don’t think this will only evoke hed and slugged me in the shoulder "Trustaweso about"

When he pushed out of the car, I did too, willing to try anything My eyes about bugged out of n h

And when I tried to resist, he only held up a finger

"Trust, myinI already owed him and would continue to owe him

"Don’t even worry about it," he finally said as if reading my mind "Just pay it forward soive to soiven to ot a membership, and they setwith me until Tuesday afternoon But I was allowed to visit the weight room iot started My muscles were stiff because it’d been a few days since I’d worked out in the prison yard, but after so curl, power rack, elliptical and butterfly press, I was feeling loose, and actually a lot cal Itout here all day Except I hadn’t eaten since the night before, so I eventually returned to the Ryan apartment

Eva fed me a late lunch, and the kids played around me on the floor until they fell asleep on et some work done at the club, and I headed out for a while, still uneasy about being left alone with Eva and the kids

As I wandered through the city streets, breathing in my freedoood, I thought of rew in my chest

When I passed a floral shop, I went inside to breathe in the closest scent of nature I could get But it only made the pain throb more, so I left minutes later

I found ht and would’ve already started her shift by noatched the building, the front lights, and the line forroups at a time