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Purse? Through the blur, I re it all I shook my head "Don’t have it" I wondered hoas there How many beers I had had from that bucket Had I called hi the hard outline of ripped at the front of his shirt, pullingarounddown at--if I told Vic about the s I didn’t need another IOU hanging out there

"Did someone hurt you?" His voice was louder and I winced,

"No I fell On the street"

He pressed a soft kiss on ht"

The seat beneath h the city In his arms, in that spot, I could have stayed forever I shook ht me on it To take me to his home, damn any of my opinions to the contrary But he didn’t For once in our relationship, he listened tofor him, a date or fuck interrupted Maybe he felt sorry for me in my pitiful state Whatever the reason, he and Jake carriedopen the door, the worry on her face clearing as she gatheredmy phone, drowned me in bottled water, and then putas my mom’s had once been

I shouldn’t have called Vic I shouldn’t have been that weak But in that moment of vulnerability, I’d needed to be taken care of And Vic … he’d always done that for me He did it better than anyone

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Chanel ure, because she’d been trying to poop for three blocks now The ht her first squat was the poop of the walk, and I’d bagged and trashed that niblet of poo, so now, anything that was squeezed out, I had nothing to pick it up with Which leftlike a Fifth Avenue asshole

We finally , a constant re I still couldn’t believe I’d been ed Four years in the city and it chose the worst possiblefro the mistake of my weak moment, or if I was hurt that his I’ll love you forever had such little weight I undid Chanel’s collar, her butt hitting the thick carpet as soon as she reached it, dragging herself by her front paws, a long sroaned, setting her leash on the foyer table, and about jumped out of my boots when there was a deep chuckle from behind me

"Sorry" Clarke’s hands came up in surrender, and I held a hand to as," I said

He gri a little "No When at all possible, I try to avoid the condom business"

I had to sh-handed as she was about everything, had gone

"Nicki loves it," he followed up, as if in answer to od there They do a better job of kissing her ass than I do"