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There was one other thing she’d seen that day

One other instance that had been the thing that had made me think that’d been why she really turned me down for a date

Belle smiled

“You think it upsetthe absolute shit out of my abusers?” She rolled her eyes and tossed the underwear she’d been holding to the shelf that was holding a pair of jeans beside her Then she frowned, picked it back up, and tucked it underneath her arht of my eleventh year”

I gestured to the underwear “You gonna buy those after all?”

She frowned “No, I’o put them back on the rack where I found thes out of place”

Then she just… left

I started to follow her—and did for the ot a call

“He’s co your way,” Sin said in my ear “Black t-shirt now He took off the sweatshirt”

I picked hiht for a wo kids running wild around her

The littlest of the young kids was standing directly next to Belle, looking up at her and reaching for a long, bouncing curl that was playing with the small of her back

I’d wanted to do the sa

But, sadly, I had a job to do

Hanging back in the sock aisle, I keptfro suspicious as fuck hanging out in the lingerie

Neither Belle nor the frazzled mom noticed the man