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“Who?”
“Thea. At the bar I gave her my condolences for her loss, and she told me not to, because her mother was a horrible person. I don’t know what that was all about, but most people tend to not speak ill of the dead, especially if that person is their own mother.”
“Yeah?”
It was all I could think to say.
So what was her story? The more I thought about it, the less it made sense. She was living in her mother’s old house, but she didn’t have any photos of her anywhere. She never brought her up, and the one time I did, she was ready to bite my head off.
Why did Thea hate her mother? And if she hated her so much, why was she following in her footsteps?
No matter how many times I turned the story over in my mind, I couldn’t make sense of it. Thea Cunning was a true woman, and like a true woman, she was an enigma wrapped up in a mystery.
CHAPTER TEN
P A S T
D A Y 5
THEA
“What’s the matter?” I asked, taking a seat on his lap.
He shook his head, and wrapped his arms around my waist.
“Nothing.”
“You’re a horrible liar.”
“Ah, my pride,” he joked, but he didn't really seem to be in the mood for anything.
Sighing, I sat up, reached over the couch, grabbed a napkin from the side table, and quickly scribbled a note on it before I handed it to him.
“One free rant?” he read.
“Yep, you get one free rant, about anything, for as long as you need, and when you’re done, I won’t say anything. We’ll just move on like it never even happened.”
He looked at me for a moment before reaching over to get another napkin off the table. He wrote on it and handed it right back.
“I’m not going to have anything to rant about within the next two days Levi.”
“That’s why there isn’t an expiration date on it. Even when were not together, you can call me up, and cash that in. If you don’t promise to use yours, I’m not going to use mine.”
“Fine.”
Did he always have to be so difficult?
He lifted his pinky.
“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
“You have to do it, or I won’t believe you,” he said with a grin so wide, I just wanted to kiss and slap him at the same time.
Sighing, I locked my pinky with his. “Yeah, this definitely makes it legal and binding.”
“Can I cash this in yet?”
Closing my mouth, I waited.
