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Honestly, I was more used to people staring.
It was kind of refreshing to have someone come right out and ask if it hurt instead of staring and
whispering about me as if I couldn’t hear every single word they’d said.
“Baby,” I said. “I’m fucked up. I know it. Everyone else knows it. You just need to be prepared
because this won’t be the last time it happens.”
She made a disgusted sound underneath her breath.
I laughed and squeezed her hand. “Come on. I want to get the best spot I can.”
***
“Hey, Frankie!” Ashley cried. “Come take a picture with us!”
She grabbed my hand and led me to where her group of fellow residents had gathered.
My hand tightened on hers.
I most certainly did not want to be in a picture with her friends.
Which, she must’ve sensed, because she slowed.
But, then Chen held up his hand. “Not him, just us!”
Frankie narrowed her eyes.
“Garrett is in the photo, and he’s not ‘us.’” Frankie stiffened.
Chen opened his mouth to say something, but it was the asshole that I fucking hated without a
shadow of a doubt that opened his jerk mouth.
“Yeah, but we actually want to be able to post the picture on social media,” Victor, Nina’s doctor
husband, countered. “If he’s in it…”
He left the thought hanging.
But I didn’t need him to finish his sentence to understand.
He thought that I’d ruin the picture.
And maybe he was right.
I squeezed Frankie’s hand, telling her without words that it was all right.
But she didn’t think it was all right.
Not even a little bit.
And I’d barely gotten her calmed down after what Ashley and Jessica had done before dinner.
“Baby…”
She was already shaking her head.
