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He looked at hed, "Yeah ok If you ever want to co list for you, ok" He dug into his pocket and pulled out a wad of cash, "Right then, you bet 375 at 2 - 1 on the final, so that’s 1,125, and 500 for winning So I owe you… 1625," he said, counting it out onto the side before handing it to me

Wow, 1625 wasawesohtheer or two as well

"Right then, hospital kid?" Ray asked, looking me over slowly

"Nah, it’s not too bad, I’ve had worse, there’s nothing serious" I shrugged and pushed myself up out of the chair I followed Ray to his car and rested

"Please don’t do this again, Kid I don’t want to see you hurt" Ray said quietly

"I won’t Thanks for setting this up for ave hiht as he pattedmy ribs

I climbed out of the truck and walked to ainst the door and squeezed, I looked down atas the pain got worse I headed into the bathroo both ofto cool the withand a couple of broken ribs, but they’d heal on their own I sed a couple of painkillers and washed my face with the cold water I headed back toto look in the broken mirror but I couldn’t see much I could see I had a split lip and would probably have a wicked bruise on the side of my jaw and probably a black eye I’d have to stay away fro or so

I s to Brett I needed to find a better hiding place for et one of those safes from downstairs

I reached out rab the photo of Sophie from the side, but it wasn’t there, it must have fallen on the floor and I was just too exhausted to h to let

Chapter 8

When I woke in the roaned, ers were stiff, , I felt like I’d been hit by a freight train I pushed h my teeth as a white hot pain shot up ht I’d have to keep an eye on it and rabbed ht I had nothing to do today, I wasn’t due at the scrap yard again until Thursday The car was going through the auction toht so they will be able to make the decision on whether they wanted me to fix up their others

Hopefully the state of my face wouldn’t put theers in the first place I decided to call Ellie and see if she was still talking toher in trouble with that love bite,for a while and when she answered she was laughing her ass off "Hey Stud," she choked out around her giggles

I sently

"Stacy put a ring on h that’s all," she ad back on , I’ll take it off, it’s eine the shade of pink her face was right now

"Ok well, I just wanted to checkyou in trouble with your parents" She didn’t sound like she was too mad at me thankfully

"It wasn’t ru annoyed about it

"Went off on one? What does thatangry If he’s hurt her I swear I’ll kill hiry about it, demanded I tell him who did it Whatever, it’s ok, it’s none of his business anyhtly, "Ok, well I said I’d make it up to you, so how about I take you out at the weekend?" I asked, ers that she’d say yes

"Actually I ondering if you wanted tofor you," she asked, hopefully

Shit, I can’t see her today! I needed to at least give ine I looked like death warht now I didn’t want her to take one look at"Err… actually Ellie, I’ too well today It’s probably best that we don’t see each other for a few days, just in case I pass youshe’d believea little concerned