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But I don’t

"Are you okay?" I ask

He doesn’t answer for a itation, then finally sighs long and slow "No"

"You’re not okay?"

"No, Sarah, I’?"

But rather than answer, he just shakes his head and drives me to an auto shop, parks, turns off the car, and turns to face me "How do you do that?"

I blink at hi

"Drop my kid off at school?"

"No, damn it, how do you ith cases like that every day and not go crazy?"

"Look, taking you in there was not the right thing to do, but I didn’t feel like I had a choice"

"I’ worried about reen eyes on fire, and it should concern ht now I’m not afraid of him At all But oh, Lordy, I’er!"

"And just like that, he ruins it," Imy palm to my forehead

"What’s that supposed to mean?"

"Look, this is my job What you saw today pales compared to some of the cases I’ve seen I’ht coistered to carry a weapon, and I kno to use it You have no idea what I’ve seen in er and frustration

"I’m not a little wo?" he asks, confused "You’re a wo that you’re not capable of kicking ass because frankly, I’ mine before the day is out, but I don’t love that you put yourself and your kid in situations like the one this erous"

"You don’t know rabto , but now you can go get on with your life and forget us You don’t have to worry about a thing"

And with that, I leave his car and walk into the auto repair office to handlein my life On my own

The way I like it

"And then Peter said that he wants to be Lizzy’s boyfriend!" Hailey says that evening over dinner We’re tucked safely away in our little townhouse for the evening This is h and spend ti to have a boyfriend," I say cal about boyfriends? Already?

"Well, he isn’t her boyfriend," Hailey says before eyeing a sprig of asparagus with contempt "He just said he wanted to"