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I show it to him “Okay?”

“All right”

“Put it on your Instagram too”

“She doesn’t check—”

“Then what’s it hurt?”

Chapter 6

Ryan

Red, orange, yellow, and green hit the pan with a sizzle I grate ginger over sliced bell peppers Add rice vinegar Stir

The shower turns off

Footsteps e of clothes at the shop”

Leighton is standing in the hallrapped in only a black towel

She holds it closed with one hand Pushes her short hair behind her ear with the other

She’s dripping wet

But I don’t care that she’s dragging water all over the hardwood floor

Only that she’s naked under that thin layer of cotton