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"She’s fine"
Rochelle "heneral direction "She still needs to sign the paperwork before she walks out of here!"
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Even when he’s scruffy and bedraggled, few females can resist Jesse’s powers of hotness I alht then," she ht back" She blushed her way out of the roo "Where did you find clothes at this hour?"
He shrugged "My mom knows the woman ns one of those shops on Melrose They’re open till eleven, anyway, so she didn’tout on my lap Inside were a pair of black ponte pants, a simple blue T-shirt, and a sports bra At the bottoreen canvas jacket with pockets Lots of pockets It looked a lot like a jacket I used to own years ago, one ofiteht "Oooh, Jesse!"
"I wasn’t sure about your exact size, so I went for mediums"
I touched the material It looked like leather, but was actually waxed cotton, which ot blood on it, I could just hose it off "It’s aweso and dropped the jacket like it had bitten me "Ack! Okay, I can’t afford this, but I’ll pay you back for the shirt and pants" Regretfully, I began rolling the jacket back into the bag
Jesse put a hand on mine, then lifted it away quickly "Keep it Consider them belated birthday presents"
I raised my eyes toht The book "Thank you!" I said, resisting the strong urge to hug the jacket
"I al in the pocket of his leather jacket and handed o "New phone"
"Nice!"
I dumped it out too A pretty basicwas open--Jesse had been charging it in the car I could get Abigail Hayne to transfer all my information over to the new phone It wasn’t the first tiy I bothered to use
"How’s your arm?" Jesse asked
"Sore, but I can et dressed?"
"You mean the president of er in the air, and Jesse took the cue to turn around I pulled on the pants first, which made ured out how the bad guy--or bad guys-- the wall
"How?" I dropped the hospital gown--they’d let oodness--and stuck the sports bra over my head
"A boundary witch could have pressed her"
Oh my God, I was aout an involuntary whiainst my stitches