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“Yeah, you?”

“It was fine,” she said with a dismissive wave of her hand “You’ve been to one ball, you’ve been to the specks of dust from her skirt “Did Willow enjoy herself?” She didn’t wait for an answer before continuing “I noticed her truck wasn’t there this ”

“It et a hold of her to ask”

“I know you usually read The Post with your first cup of coffee There’s an interesting piece about you and Willow” She tilted her head to the side and grinned “What’s it like dating a criminal?”

I couldn’t stop“What?”

“From the expression on your face, you didn’t know Poor baby Willoas in prison for armed robbery”

Beginning to feel resentful of Josie breathing the same air as me, I said, “Please leave I’ to”

She stood and eyed iddy expression that left er”

After Josie flounced out of my office, I slammed the door

Willow didn’t talk raured that was because she’d had a hard time and would open up to me eventually

Apprehension dried my mouth, and my fists clenched I didn’t want to read the article, but I needed to because I guessed it had so up with her truck

I clicked on the news app and scanned until I came to a picture of Willow and me with our arms around one another at the ball

The first line of the article asked who Willow Sanders was Then it went into detail about how at age fifteen, she’d held a gun to a doctor’s head in front of his kids and wife and had then served time at a secure juvenile detention facility

There were quotes fro addict, and nothing but a filthy criminal

A quote frohter was born a troublemaker They hadn’t spoken in years and never would