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“He’s going to look for her.” Romeo ran a hand over his dark mane, staring at the clock above our heads. “Fuck, it feels like I’ve been here since Thursday. Time crawls when you’re freezing to death.”
“I will not be looking for her,” I countered, not moving an inch, the icy smoke not penetrating my flesh even remotely.
I was numb.
So numb.
Always fucking numb.
Ollie elbowed Rom, leaning in to whisper. “What do you think they’ll call their children?”
Rom shoved him away.
Ollie’s dick swung with movement. It hadn’t shrunk a centimeter smaller in the subzero cold. It was probablya medical condition.
One of many, if I had to guess.
“Get the Fuck OutandStupid Egg,” I hissed out through clenched teeth.
Ollie quirked his head sideways. “Is that in Chinese?”
Romeo trembled. “It’s in Zach.”
Twenty seconds left.
They’d progressed to pacing around aimlessly, trying to gather some heat.
I stayed put.
Oliver fingered his chin. “She’s the first woman he’s ever talked about.”
“And the last person he should be with.” Romeo elbowed Ollie away when he tried to huddle for body heat. “She’s a con woman. Remember?”
Ten seconds.
I refused to partake in this conversation. I had no reason to encourage these two morons to explore this topic further.
“Zach’s life is neat as shit.” Oliver began strolling toward the door, making a show of rubbing the ear we’d grabbed him by this morning. “He needs a little mess. She’d be good for him.”
Five seconds.
Romeo shook icicles off his hair, following Oliver. “I’d pay good money to get a front-row ticket to his downfall.”
The buzzer from the clock above our heads erupted.
We strolled out, single-file. Ollie grabbed the digital thermostat and pressed it to the back of his leg.
Then Romeo’s.
Then mine.
“Shit, Zach. You’re still at sixty-five.” Oliver cackled. “Are you fucking kidding me? Are you even human?”
I was not, in fact, very human at all.
And I wished to stay that way.
Humanity was messy, mediocre, and prone to mistakes.
