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Adrik looks at my bruised face. His expression is so murderous that it sends a chill down my back.
“Cujo’s lucky he’s dead,” he snarls. Then, shaking his head, “How the fuck did you manage that, anyway?”
“Oh, it was so rad,” I try to grin without splitting my lip again. “I wish you could have seen it. I was like,dasvidanya bitch!And I blew him up.”
“You didn’t really say that, did you?” Jasper says, looking supremely disappointed in me.
“No,” I admit, disappointed in myself. “I wish I did.”
Adrik slides out of the booth, limping over to the jukebox with his hand pressed to his side. He feeds in a couple of coins, then scrolls down the list with his finger before making his selection.
Anyone Who Knows What Love Is – Irma Thomas
Spotify → geni.us/savage-spotify
Apple Music → geni.us/savage-apple
The music fills the tiny trailer, light and silvery and wistful.
Adrik holds out his hand to me.
I join him on the checkered tiles, my arms around his neck, his hands gripping my hips. We’re both so beat up that we can’t really dance—all we can do is sway.
I lay my head against his chest and listen to his heart beating, low and steady, beneath the music.
Chief and Misha join Vlad so they can eat some of his fries. He pulls the plate away at first, then relents and pushes it closer.
Jasper leans his head against the window, eyes closed, expression peaceful.
Hakim says something that makes Alla laugh. She leans across the counter to brush his curls back from his forehead with the palm of her hand.
Adrik and I sway together, his heat radiating into me, making me truly warm as nothing else can. He kisses the top of my head, then rests his cheek there, his arms wrapped tightly around me.
“Did you think about shooting me?” I ask him.
“Not for a second.”
“Not even half a second? After everything I did?”
He looks down at me and slowly shakes his head.
“It really didn’t matter what you did. I can’t not have you.”
The rain beats down on the metal roof of the trailer, turning all the world outside the windows to a watery blur.
Nothing exists outside of us.
The world
May think I’m foolish
They can’t see you
Like I can
Oh but anyone who knows what love is
Will understand
