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When I don’t answer, she pushes "You saw the guy who did it You could help catch him" She watchesA h bullshit
So I decide on a skewed version of the truth "What if I don’t want to help catch hi who I am, or that I could put him in prison?" I’ out suspect groups One, in particular Pipe bonature norant as to not understand the dangers associated with those three little letters that mean so much when combined IRA
She nods slowly "You’re scared of what he may do to you"
"And to my family" Now it’s ardai aboutht I set the bo" I definitely didn’t see that couess fe, innocent-looking ones
"I wasn’t hurt, right? Other than this gash onot a wide ht lipstick without looking clownish
The kind that I like
She shrugs "So I told them that a man with an Irish accent saved my life I said you knocked me down before the blast But I told theaze roams my face until her cheeks flush and she ducks aith a coy s with me
A string of notes finally catchesthe first of s In the ulars lined themselves up at the bar, perched on their stools, and waved for ulars aren’t patient when it comes to that first, cold after-work pint
"River! You planning on working at all today?" Rowen hollers, glancing at A smirk
"Go ahead" She dismisses me with a smile "I don’t want to keep you"
I stall, torn between et to know this Ah I know that’s a piss-poor idea It’s best that I let her walk out of here and never look back Definitely best for uessing, by the pretty little silver chains around her neck and the bangles on her wrist and the way she looks so put together, that if it hadn’t been for what I’d done for her, she lad to see you’re fine, A my blood "Same here I mean, with you That you’re fine," she stumbles over her words Is she always this shy?
"Make sure you see all of Ireland while you’re here It’s a beautiful country" I take a deep breath And then I turnmyself to let the rush consume my attention as I dismiss Amber’s presence It’s hard but not impossible to do, with the custo their needs atmy half of the horseshoe-shaped bar with s