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“That” My voice sounded like I was gargling with acid “That is the finish line”

She snorted out a cute little laugh and opened her mouth to reply when a phone trilled frohed and pulled out of her I situated myself as best as I could and reached down to the pile of discarded clothes I handed heraround until I found her phone She hopped off the counter and picked her way around the carnage of the groceries on the floor I made my way to the bathroo side

The cut looked like it was seeping and oozing, but there was a decent crust of a scab starting to build up on the edges of it Since Dovie wouldn’t help, I popped the lid off one of the tubes of superglue and sli liquid over the nasty cutoil on my skin, but the blood stopped as soon as the clear liquid started to dry I was probably going to end up with a raging infection and it wouldn’t be gangsters or rene

I ashing e in the trash when she propped herself up in the doorway My shirt covered s when I knew she was naked underneath

“That was the group hoot sick and they need me to cover I usually only stay every other weekend, but they need ht and tomorrow”

That meant I wouldn’t see her until sometime Monday Why that made me annoyed I didn’t know I nodded at her and ran ht Give me a minute to clean up the kitchen and I’ll take you Like I said, I bought you soet ready”

She gave me a look that I sas colored with disappointment, but then she just nodded and turned on her heel

“Cool I’ll help you clean up”

I watched her walk away Soht was an e that her walking aas somore for her sake than my own

CHAPTER 8

Dovie

I DON’T KNOW WHAT I had been doing with Billy Clark all those years ago or with that loser from the restaurant, but it hadn’t been anywhere near the same level of what I had just done with Bax I knew that sex was just a thing to hiratification, a way to inti different I felt like I had a part of hi in tiht of his dark gaze as he watched h toard the group ho forelse dra to be out of luck, because all I really wanted to do was be back on the counter with all his intensity and focus centered onthat inti

When he was nicewell, as nice as a guy like hi and I wasn’t sure what to do with hiry, and all silent and broody, that’s when I kneatch uard up, and prepare to do battle with him I wasn’t sure what this new development between us meant, but I did know I had never felt as worshiped, as appreciated, as I had after he was done withparticularly special in the looks departht eyes picking ether, I felt like the irl in the world Or at least in the Point