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The door cracks open and cold air rushes into the SUV

"Tell me if you run out of places to stay," she says and then the door shuts behind her

With her pack slung over her shoulder, Haley shoves her hands in her pockets and slowly idles to the front door I want to stay and see if she looks oes into the house, but I don’t because what if she doesn’t?

Chapter 19

Haley

West is homeless I sort of crave to crawl onto his lap, bury my head in his shoulder and weep for hi so horrible, it’s too difficult to cry for yourself Soony inside would disappear if someone would shed the tears forall the pain

My heart one million percent aches for West and that creates problems I’m attracted to him, I hurt for him and, overall, I like him and I need additional co at the television,room He’s below a man, who’s below a man, which makes him the lowestuntil three in the afternoon, he kills things for a living The things everyone else cringes to touch

I slip offlike a wallflower geisha, I lower my head and position myself next toso for thethe act Standing here, I have the saht to hell

While staying focused on the television, he talks atrooainst the floor and colors a picture of a house: two stories, blue shutters, rosebushes near the front door The sun is shining and a faures sy I’ll answer

"Why aren’t you at work?"

"It’s Monday I’m off" He knows this, too I’m a waitress, like my mom Except I work at the pizza place for bad tips and she works double shifts at the Roadhouse for slightly better bad tips She works so much that I never see her any atlooked at He drinks from the frosted can of Coke Alcohol, he says, is the devil

If I didn’t believe he was Satan incarnate, he could be considered a handsome man even in his blue work unifor off hiht-year-old carbon copy of Jax: whitish-blond hair, blue eyes and sturdy build