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He props his elbow against the wall beside me and smiles. “How much?”
I frown at him and jerk away. “I’m not for sale.”
“Really?” he says skeptically and looks me up and down.
I glance down to see I’m still wearing what I was wearing last night.
A skin-tight almost translucent white dress.
“Really,” I mumble and start walking back to the complex.
“Damn,” the man says with disappointment.
Thankfully he doesn’t try to follow me, but I feel his eyes burning into my backside until I turn the corner.
The walk back home goes by in a blur. My head and heart at war.
With Jude out of the picture, there’s no need to rush.
He won’t be coming back to grab us.
I’ll never have to see him again.
For once in my life, everything has worked out in my favor.
Even if it strangely feels like I’ve fucked up somehow.
I point myself towards Sonya’s to grab Abel then change my mind.
I’ve only been gone twenty minutes, max, and she said she was going to feed him breakfast.
Deciding a few more minutes won’t hurt, I head home first.
Opening the door, I kick off my flip-flops, drop the new phone on the counter, and make my way to my bathroom.
Ignoring the faint, lingering smell of Jude’s cologne in the living room.
The bathroom is a bit of a mess. The shower curtain is yanked to one side and the baby shampoo I wash Abel with is opened and tipped over. Half the bottle down the drain.
A part of me wants to get angry at the waste.
But how can I be angry at a dead man?
A dead man who washed my baby…
Shoving that thought from my mind, I pick the bottle up and screw on the lid. Then I start the water.
Stripping out of my dress, I ball it up and toss it into the corner. Planning to burn it later.
I’d burn this whole place down if I could get away with it,I think to myself as I step under the water.
Burn it all from my memories.
The club, the stupid uniform.
Everything that led me to this moment of awful reality.
Squeezing my eyes shut against the spray, I wash up. Flashes of Jude’s face haunting me as I work shampoo into my scalp.
