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“Why are you looking at uy asted and out of control” She sounded huffy, but under it her voice was shaking She was scared out of her mind

I inclined my chin and let out the breath I hadn’t been aware I was holding

“That wasn’t a drunk driver The car had no plates, didn’t have any lights on until you caht for you If your buddy hadn’t taken you to the ground it would have run you over very purposefully What in the hell is going on with you?”

She blinked up at me and bit down hard on her bottom lip I wanted to replace her teeth with my own

“My arm really hurts” It should She had a pretty nasty case of road rash and it was bleeding steadily, and half the parking lot was embedded in it

“Want me to follow you home so you can clean up?”

She shook her head vehemently “no” and asked in a whisper, “Can you just take me somewhere so I can wash it out? I don’t want my sister or my mom to see me like this”

One of these days I was going to have to get the entire story of as going on with this girl I liked a challenge, but she had passed “challenging” apretty close to “impossible”

“I can run you by my place”

She nodded vigorously then looked at her little BMW “I can’t leave the car It won’t be here by the tiet back”

She ave her a once-over She was a mess and there was no way she could drive a stick shift with one working aruided her to the Mustang I opened the door for her and pulled my phone out of my pocket I waited until the nervous voice on the other end answered before telling Brysen to give me her keys

“Aldo?”

“Yeah?”

I was probably the last person he wanted to hear from “You want a break on the two Gs you still owe ame from last weekend?”