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My eyes narrowed at the wo up the pathway to my door

I walked toward it on stiff legs, glaring at the wohts

Yanking the door open, I waited iet there

“What are you doing here?” I asked warily

We hadn’t left it on the best of terms the last timeeach other, so I was honestly surprised to even see her on my porch Let alone my property

Then again, when I’d left her at the diner, I’d fully intended on calling her

Had really planned on it

But theon had finally been solved I hadn’t had the time to sleep, let alone call her

“I got a call frory…” She hesitated “And that you weren’t here”

My eyes narrowed, then I turned around and yelled at the top of et your ass over here!”

Petra, my sweet little niece whom I loved with all my heart, came around the corner sheepishly

“Yes?” she asked sweetly, curling a lock of her hair

I narrowed ht I told you to brush your hair?”

Petra’s lips thinned as she opened her rowl

But before she could reply, I feltshoved as Cannel came into the room “You don’t brush curly hair, dummy”

My eyes narrowed on a new set of doe eyes

“You do when you’re in rowled “I don’t like braiding her hair and having her whining about how led”

I was pissed

Way pissed

So pissed, in fact, that I s I didn’t mean if I didn’t calm the fuck down

And it was all a certain woman with her stupid pretty eyes, and her stupid sweet er me at the drop of a hat, that had me all discombobulated

“Will, go take a nap” Cannel narrowed her eyes “And hopefully when you wake up, you’ll be in a better mood”

How she could tell that I was tired, I didn’t know

I was on the verge of saying so to say, but luckily, I was saved by the doorbell again

“Ohh, this is so good!” Ashlie whispered “I’lad that you called her”

I gritted my teeth and pushed past the three happy people that had come to mean a whole lot more to me than I’d realized

When I swung the door open wide, aof food

I frowned