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Love. Affection. A connection that was more than just chemistry.
“Congratulations! I’m so happy for you,” I said. I was. Truly.
“Nate’s living here now. He gave up his place in Havre and–”
I blinked and my stomach dropped. “What? Here?”
Our apartment was small. Two small bedrooms. One even smaller bathroom.
“I got transferred here,” he explained, brushing his hair back from his face. He glanced at Maggie, then kissed the top of her head, as if he couldn’t stop himself.
“Oh, wow. Um. Great.”
“So, yeah, I think that you’ll have to move out because we want to be on our own.”
I knew that was coming next, but wow. Her words weren’t cruel but fueled from a need to be alone with her new fiancé. The lease was in her name. I’d only taken over a sub-let and now renting a room to help her cover expenses until Mrs. Jonsdottir sold. I didn’t have a legal standing here, although I didn’t really want to linger living with her if they were going to be all hot and heavy all the time. Which they would be.
Mav and Bridge were. Gag. And I didn’t have to live with them.
Nate nuzzled her neck and Maggie giggled. His hand slid down her back and gave her ass a squeeze.
“Right, I’ll just be in my room.”
I scooted past them and into my bedroom, closed the door. Through the thin wood and walls, I couldn’t miss how they got right back at it. I heard her bedroom door close, thank God, so there’d be two doors between their sexy times and me.
I pulled out my cell, read through Cheryl’s texts which I’d ignored until now.
You didn’t pay the repair bill.
Mallory, answer me.
Don’t be rude to your mother. Pay the bill before the manager of the service center calls you.
Why are you so mean to me?
If I paid for the car repair, it would shut her up. Get her off my back. At least for a little while. And she’d stop saying I was mean. I sighed. I couldn’t win because Icouldn’tpay the bill whether I was mean or not.
I hadn’t had much time to think about a lawyer for my court date next week. I could get a public defender, but did they even believe I was innocent? Would he or she care about my fate one way or the other?
I didn’t know lawyers in Las Vegas… but I knew two who might.
Maggie’s headboard started to slam against the wall, breaking me from my thoughts.
Wham. Wham. Wham.
That and now she was crying out–and not in pain–probably a lot like I had earlier.
I dropped my head in my hands and groaned. I couldn’t stay here, couldn’t listen to them hump like rabbits.
I grabbed a bag, stuffed clothes for work into it along with my makeup kit and a few other things, then went to the only place I could think of. It wasn’t Theo’s. He made it obvious that while I was the woman he wanted to sleep with, I wasn’t sleeping over. It wasn’t Arlo’s because I was too old for his couch and since he kept late hours with the bar, he’d wake me up, then I’d wake him up in the morning when I got up for school in turn. It sure as hell wasn’t my parents. Mav and Bridge also fucked like rabbits, so there was only one place left.
Lindy’s empty house. She’d moved to be with Dex in Denver, although she had no intention of selling the place. In fact, she and Dex had said they wanted to settle there after he retired in a few years.
For now, I was now a squatter.
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THEO
