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She nods, looking worried

I want to tell her everything will be okay That I’ to happen But I don’t want to lie to her

I lived this life for too daht

Clara

"Okay, this place isn’t too bad" I bounce down on the queen size bed in thea lot worse, but the motel seems to be in the better side of town and could probably pass for at least three stars Add that to the fact that I just got a text fro she actually tookpretty okay right now

Jax shoves the keycard into his wallet "This is the best place in town"

My expression plummets as I kneel up on the bed "I hope you didn’t fork out a lot of money just so I’d feel safe Please tell me you didn’t"

"It wasn’t that e frohtstand

"Jax--" I start to object

But he talks over me "So, there’s this drive-in diner place like a ers ever I was thinking we could stop there then head out to this s out at It’s on the other side of town"

"Why does she hang out at a motel?" I ask as I put my hair up into a ponytail

He avoids eye contact with oes towhat?"

His shoulders lift and fall as he exhales heavily "Whoring herself out basically" He looks so ashah I already knew histhe pain arapwill be okay I remember, afterht No one ever did, though, and it really wouldn’t have

I wrapto be okay with this?"

He has asked me the same question like a hundred ti about hiony in his eyes when he entered that home made ht my apartment was bad, but that place No one should have to live under those conditions And Jax grew up in it

"I’ across the town "We should probably get going, though We’re running out of daylight"

"You make us sound like vampires," I joke in an attempt to make him smile