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Cecilia shook her head “I still can’t believe this No good deed goes unpunished, right?”

“We’ll get it figured out,” I assured her, setting the water bottle on the nightstand “How’re you feeling?”

“Like I got run over by a truck,” she said with a little groan “Butfor me”

“I see that,” I replied The bed had been made up with sheets and a coed back on a couple of pilloith Olive asleep against her chest

“All this stuff was brand new,” she said, patting the bedding on her lap

“Lu ht it,” I said as I kicked offbags”

“Oh, whatever,” she joked as I sat down beside her “I’ve seen your house You like expensive shit”

I let out a startled laugh “What?”

“You’ve got expensive furniture,” she pointed out “And your bedding is soft as a baby’s ass”

“I ainst the headboard with a sigh “And bought the only bedding I could find that didn’t have flowers or cartoon characters on it”

“You made it?” she asked in surprise “Really?”

“I like working with ers I lifted them up a little from my lap and showed her the tiny scars fro on various projects “It relaxes me”

“I get that,” she said “I like to quilt while I’ TV”

“Quilt? Seriously?” I could not i

“My gra “I have a hard ti while I watch TV, I fall asleep or get bored”

“Now, that I can believe,” I replied

“I’ her head back tiredly “But they’re functional when I’m done”

“That’s pretty cool Do you ns and shit?” The conversation was surface, a throay exchange of words, but Jesus, I wanted to know everything about her The thought made my stomach tith excitement and sink at the same time

“Yeah,” she said “Nothing fancy, though You should see soraave Cam one when he was a kid, and I think she and ram died”

At the reference to her graet that day We were never the sah, but that hadn’t stopped us fro to each other like lifelines It had made for a messy as fuck relationship, but a solid one, all the same

“I liked your gra the silence

“Everyone liked oddamn saint”