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What does her apartment look like?
I’m dying to know.
“I can’t just yet. I have information to give you, and we still have Brinley. I thought you wanted to know about both.”
Blue stops in place then pivots on her feet to stare back at me. Her eyes squint against the sunlight and her hair is a mess around her head.
“You’re not coming up to my place.”
“It’s the only way I’ll give you the information,” I volley back.
Blue curses under her breath and kicks away a needle that was near her foot. This place is pure trash.
“Have I mentioned how much I hate you today?”
Grinning, I’m starting to really enjoy her spunk. “That would be the first time.”
“Well, you can expect more.”
She pauses, looks around the dumpy parking lot then up to the shitty apartments.
“Fine. You can come up. But stay ten feet away from me at all times, and as soon as you give me what I want, you leave immediately.”
“Deal,” I lie.
I’m not leaving until I take a good look at her life.
Blue can’t be my problem anymore, but I’m finding it difficult not to give a fuck.
Why? I don’t have any clue. But I want to protect her from herself in a way I’ve never felt before.
Especially after learning the details of her childhood—and after learning what happened to her mother. I would never want that for Blue, and I pray to everything holy that she hasn’t already experienced that kind of treatment.
It would explain her inability to trust.
And it would explain why she took one look at me and thought she knew me.
Like recognizes like.
Blue leads me up to her apartment and is slipping the key in the lock when she stops, glares back at me, then sighs in resignation. She’s letting me into her personal space and can’t stand it.
Not after what I did.
I deserve another kick to the face.
“Back up,” she demands. “I said not to come within ten feet of me.”
Amused, I take a few steps back, lifting my brows to silently question if she’s satisfied.
“Keep that distance, or I’ll see it as an invitation for a fight.”
As if she could fight me and win.
But I let her think that.
Content that I’m far enough away, Blue unlocks the door and steps inside. I can see her hesitation over letting me in, but eventually she shrugs and hurries to the other side of her living room before I step foot through the door.
As soon as I close the door behind me, she crosses her arms and demands, “Okay, tell me the information, then leave.”
