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I knehat she was thanking me for, but I didn’t knohy

Any fuckin’ guy would’ve saved Catori I wasn’t special

I nodded once, accepting her gratitude, then said, “Tell me about Trent and Thor”

Harlorapped her arms around herself

“I’ll just preface this by saying that I really don’t think Trent knew about Thor and what he did He’d followedthat here I went based on what inforlean out of the receptionist at ot pissed as all hell when I didn’t answer Broke his phone into a hundred pieces I saw the phone in his floorboard when he finally caught up to as station near the interstate He knew that I would want to fill up before I left, and he knew that I had an Exxon card He guessed that here I’d go” She breathed out shakily “When I told hiasted He asked to borrow my phone, and then he called his brother, who didn’t answer He then called the cops and told them where I was, and that he’d be home soon to answer any questions that they had”

“I’ll look into it, honey,” Jack promised “Now tell Laric about Thor”

Harlow nodded her head, her eyes red-rimmed as if she’d cried all the way here

“We went out on a double date two years ago,” Harlow started “Thor was originally supposed to be ot there, I arrived first as did Trent, and we hit it off Thor and Cat later hit it off, so we left the pairing as it was Soon after Trent and I made it official, Thor and Cat did, too Only, they went sour almost ile second of every single day Wanted to put a tracker on her phone so he could see where she was, and when she was doing it, so that her explanations lined up When we all told her that was a bit of stalker behavior, Trent adet a bit obsessive about things Though he’d never seen it happen with a person”

I reluctantly reroaned and shifted, her feettoward the heat

“Her feet are always cold,” Winter said “I had to buy her battery-operated socks to keep her feet warm in the winter”

“She still has them,” Harlow said softly as she watchedit in a way that drew the side of her left one even closer to h

“I know,” Winter snickered “I buy her new ones every year Last year I got her one of those car cigarette lighter blankets so she could wrap thes”

“I got an ice scraper,” Adah

Jack shifted his stance against the wall, his eyes going to Al who’d finally walked a little bit farther into the rooainst the wheel of the bed

“When Catori caround check on him than I had previously and found out that when he was sixteen, he was pretty much sentenced to rehab for his stalkerish behavior He’d done virtually the sah school I was actually going to look into contacting her, trying to see what he did, because I wasn’t liking how things orking out with Thor He hadn’t responded well to the restraining order Cat was about to get I’asket lose his shit”

“How do you know that?” I asked curiously

Jack tipped his head toward Harlow

“Thor and Trent were together at the time,” she said sadly “Trent lives in the duplex next to er allowed at mine Both Catori and I were atorder at Trent’s place—by the way, they’d tried to serve it at his place which is across town, but he liked to stay at Trent’s place because itto come over to mine—and we’d called the authorities and told theot served, he punched the guy serving the papers in the face The cops were called”

“Sounds like a quality guy” I shook my head “How did you not see this?”

That last part was directed at Catori, who apparently had heard the question