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“Me, either”
“After the shooting,to scare his fa stand But all the kids are gone now, you know? Only Charlie’s still at home, and she wasn’t even alive then What does he have to prove at this point?”
“Maybe they just love the place,” I replied
“Well, I don’t I don’t give a shit if they redid the backyard It’s still the place where our lives fucking exploded”
As we got closer to Eugene, Cecilia’s hand went to herat her bottom lip over and over By the ti with anxiety and her hand was holding un to ache There wasn’t anything I could say that would calm her down, and I wondered how in the world she’d forced herself to visit in the past if it made her that nervous
When we pulled through the gate of the Aces’ compound, it was like a switch flipped Cecilia’s hand slid away froh her hair She quickly pulled her sweatshirt back on and found a tube of lipstick in her purse, s with a mirror By the time she’d settled back into her seat like she was out for a Sunday drive, it was like I was looking at a completely different person than I’d spent the last few anxiety-filled hours with
As we pulled to a stop in the forecourt and I put the truck in park, Cecilia looked at me
“Showti for me, she hopped out of the truck and immediately opened the back door for Olive
“You want rab her seat?” I asked as she climbed inside
“No, I’ll just grab her without it,” she said as she unbuckled the baby “But can you grab the diaper bag? She needs a diaper change”
“No problem”
After I’d grabbed the bag from the backseat, I met Cecilia at the hood of the truck It was so late that I swore I could see the sky growing light, but by the nu out of the clubhouse, everyone had waited up for the convoy to get back
“Give randbaby,” Farrah ordered as we made our way toward the front door “I wanna show her off”
“Later, Mom,” Cecilia said with a shake of her head If you looked closely, you could see the tension in her shoulders and in the movement of her body
Unsurprisingly, no one noticed but me
“Such a party pooper,” Farrah said lightly, bu Cecilia with her hip The tension that Farrah had been carrying seemed to have ates