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My eyebrows shot up. “Damn, that quick? You’re not gonna make me grovel, beg, none of that?”
“Nah,” she laughed. “I understood why you were pissed. If this situation were the other way around,whew. You’d be every derivative of “fuckboy” under the sun, and that status would bepermanent.”
“Well, shit. It would really be like that?”
“Hell yes. But besides that… With everything getting turned all upside down, I need all the trustworthy friends I can get right now. Do Ilooklike I’m in a state to be pushing people away when they’re trying to help?”
Immediately, my eyes went to the bruises on her neck. Self-consciously, she lifted her own hand, covering them.
“It looks bad, doesn’t it?” she asked. “You’re looking at me like I’m pitiful, just like Asher did.”
“I don’t think you’re pitiful,” I answered quickly, shaking my head. “Not at all. Yes, the bruises look bad, I’m not going to lie to you. But… you survived it.”
She scoffed. “Yeah. This time.”
“Nobody is going to touch you. Because to do that, they have to get through me, and nobody is getting through me. You understand?”
Monica smiled. “I thought you were a computer geek. Now I’m supposed to buy you asBilly Badass?”
I shot her a grin as I leaned in closer to the bed. “How exactly did you know my codename?”
“Oh please,” she laughed, just as the door swung open. I was on my feet quickly, weapon drawn, getting in between her and whoever had come in without knocking or announcing themselves.
“Whoa,shit!” the doctor exclaimed, putting her hands up. “What the hell is happening?!”
I lowered the gun. “My bad, Doc. I have to be on high alert.”
“Well, it’s just us,” Kora said, from beside the doctor. “You can put that away.”
She was right. So I did. And then I stepped away from the bed, back to the other side of the curtain to let her have some privacy while the doctor checked on her. I went back to my chair, back to my laptop, back to my search for the truth.
