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Looking toward hiht beat you up”

He snickered “Your boyfriend does deserve to have his ass handed to hi at you in the rain It’s only roht?”

He was trying to joke, but I could tell he didn’t find it funny

“I’m sorry, I was just upset about—”

“I know,” I finished for him “At first I was confused and upset, then I heard, and the first thing I wanted to knoas if you were okay…well, that’s a lie I wanted to know if Toby was okay, though I kneouldn’t be But I orried about you, too”

He laughed, takingthe back of it “I’ll be fine Toby, he’s in pain Will be for the rest of his life I just need to remember there will be more Mollys, and to try harder to help them in the future”

“In the future, will you tell me , but I would hate if you felt the need to give me a censored version of what your day is really like You’ve never talked about your work in detail to me before”

“I’ll try, but the reason I don't say et about everything else”

“Then do you have ti it like that Froreed

“Run aith you?”

“That caht My father had a heart attack a feeeks ago and didn’t tell o with me…if you want”

“When did you find out? About your father, I mean”

“The sas happened If you don’t want to go, it’s fine I just thought I would offer, but you have work—”

“I’ll go,” he said, squeezing my hand “Let’s run away to Cypress”

Chapter Twenty