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She looked like a child who was afraid that she was about to be scolded. I didn’t usually find other women cute, but she was adorable.
“No, Memphis. I don’t think he’ll care.”
“So, can you do it today?” She asked.
“You’re not coming with me?”
“I don’t like the world,” she said.
“You’re somehow under the impression that I do?”
“You might not like it, but you’ve for sure spent more time out there than I have.”
“Out there?” I repeated and laughed. “There wasn’t an apocalypse recently, you know that, right?”
“I have a lot still to do here, okay? Just get that stuff. Please.”
“Is it expensive?”
“Use Jersey’s card,” she said.
“He won’t be pissed that we’re blowing through his money?”
“He won’t even notice that amount, Trista.”
“You guys make me sick.”
“Oh, I didn’t put it on the list, but stop somewhere and get me some nail polish too.”
I looked down at my own fingernails. Every single one was jagged, broken, and caked underneath with dirt. I couldn’t even remember the last time I’d painted them.
“It’s just something I do when I need to stop and think,” she added quickly. “I need something to do absentmindedly when I can’t figure out problems.”
I wasn’t about to argue with her. The chances of getting Jersey back were pretty much nonexistent without her. So, what Memphis needed, she was going to get.
“You think Kyle would go with you?” She asked. “I feel like Jersey wouldn’t want you to go anywhere alone.”
“I think he’d be even more annoyed by me spending too much time with Kyle,” I said and laughed at how hilarious I found myself. Memphis only looked annoyed. “I’m going to shower first, and then I guess I’ll go explore Indiana.”
“Okay, I’m going to get a phone setup for you, so don’t leave until you have it,” she said and disappeared from the room just as quickly as she’d blown in.
CHAPTER NINE
jersey
The game they were playing with me was already weighing on my nerves, and I was already pissed that I was letting them get to me that way. I had no way of knowing how much time passed since they’d brought me in here. The people who came and went from this room with scraps of food, sips of water, and a disgusting fucking bucket didn’t do it on any set schedule for me to start keeping track. It felt like it had been long enough that they should’ve started fucking with me by now though. Not that I was looking forward to it, but having to just sit and wait on it was equally exhausting.
I think I would have been less shocked if an actual ogre had walked into that room the next time the door opened. Bryson came in first, but a small blonde woman followed right behind him. She carried a tripod and a camera, and she was entirely unable to so much as glance in my direction.
“Found your girls, New Jersey,” he said and shrugged the bad shoulder out of the jacket that was draped over it.
“Then you found them because they wanted you to find them.”
“If it makes you feel better to think of it that way, sure,” he said and turned to watch the woman setup the tripod.
“How is it that you never caught her yourself?” I asked. “She retired all those other teams who were trying to bring her in alive. You were just trying to kill her. For like four years? And you couldn’t make that happen? It only took Memphis a whopping half a day to find her.”
He leaned back against the wall to smile at me.
