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Well, shit That didn’t bode well for th, but I didn’t have a choice I really couldn’t afford a new computer

“Shoot me a text after you hear from him to let me knohen to expect him”

She nodded and gave ht I don’t kno someone who had been continually beaten down, handed the worst life had to offer over and over again, could be so delightful She was a h to let uarded inner circle

“Thanks, Dovie”

She snorted “Don’t thank me until you know if he can actually fix it or not Blue screens usually mean death when it comes to computers”

I wished she hadn’t reminded me I put my stuff away as well and cliet ready for my shift

“Well, still, thanks for thinking of a solution I can actually afford”

We walked toward the center of the caht before we had to split and go our separate ways

“Look, Brysen” Her dark green eyes were serious and steady “You tookquestions when my life was a mess You’ve always been nice, never pried or asked questions I couldn’t or wouldn’t answer If you need soround then back up to me “I don’t have a lot, but Bax does, and he’ll hand it over without question if I want it”

She was going to ave her one last squeeze “No, I’m fine I just have to bide uess”

She illing to risk life and limb and even her freedo to sacrifice ht my life would be—for my sister

I made my way to the car and drove to the restaurant I had worked at for ale of the Point and the Hill, so there was an odd mix of customers we served I made decent money, and I liked that it was close to school and offered me a break from the stress at home and the opportunity to meet people I probably never would’ve otherwise

I went into the back bathrooht black T-shirt that constituted asas ore all black, the owner didn’t care hoe dressed, but I had learned real quick that the sexier the outfit, the redder the lipstick, the shinier ht hoalled, but I needed every single penny I could put et it

Iblue eyes, but a pretty blonde was a di on that made me stand out in a crowd I think the fact that I was naturally curvy, not too tall, not too short, but endowed in all the right places and then some, really hatbody and had no trouble exploiting that fact if it meant I kept rinding on a pole or paying the bills on my back

I fluffed up my asymmetrical bob, spritzed on so It was “Thirsty Thursday,” so that meant the place would be packed with a lot of kids from the university headed in different directions to drink the night away The clubs on the Hill offered expensive h-end dance clubs The places kids went in the Point were all underground You had to know someone that knew someone to even find out where they were I heard the stories of the drugs, the bloody fights, the thuoes” atmosphere I had even been to one once with Dovie when she had been tricked into going just so she would have to watch Bax get the crap pounded out of hied-up monster I didn’t fit in either place, so it was no skin off my nose that I could work the crowd and a up on the Hill, and too rich to fit in with the hard-knock life of the Point I just existed so

I was running like crazy for the first few hours Ra forever with the drinks, and the kitchen crashed anized and had ieot to take a breather and find a second to shove a taco in my face before the next wave, I was surprised when Ra with a bemused expression on his face