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He jogged up the steps “Everyone’s asleep and if you’d stop screa like a banshee, they’d stay that way”

Toni growled and pinched his ass, hard He couldn’t help but burst out into laughter as he reached his room

Good fucking end to a day that could have ended quite differently

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Two days after she’d killed a man she used sleep with, Toni was in full-on freak out mode She felt like an unstable tower built haphazardly by a toddler Each mismatched block represented one stressor And the toobbling back and forth precariously close to collapse

She’d watched aher die

She’d killed a man

She’d ale

There was a very scandalous sex video hanging over her head

She had a douchebag ex to deal with

Maverick was in the hospital

She hadn’t seen Zach in two days

She had a whole host of coh

She had a job waiting for her in Chicago and a business in Tennessee

And to top it all off, she walked into the diner at six a to find a hole in the roof and a trickle of water that seereat What the hell was she supposed to do now? The diner was slated to open in an hour, and staff should be arriving within the next thirty minutes

She grabbed awater At the rate it was pouring in, she’d need to replace it in twenty minutes

Toni’s lower lip quivered and she stared up at the ceiling while blinking to ward off the i any more water to this party

The bell over the door jangled and Shell walked in “Hey, To—oh, shit”

“Couldn’t have said it better myself Watch your feet, it’s a little slippery”