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She frowns, blinking innocently at me. “Why wouldn’t I be serious?”
“How do you work two jobs and go to class?”
“Because—I need to live. I needed to keep a roof over my head and eat at least once a day.”
This girl.
“Right.” I flip the bacon. “You took a new job last night, Kitten.”
She frowns. “What?”
“I want to be your new priority.”
She shakes her head. “I don’t understand.”
“How am I supposed to pretend I’m obsessed with you if you’re never around?”
“I’m around.”
“You work, a lot by the sounds of it.”
She nibbles her lip. “I can’t stop working. I need money.”
“Your living expenses here are covered.”
She gapes at me. “I still need money, Cash.”
“Then I’ll pay you for your time,” I say simply.
She scoffs. “I’m not comfortable with that.”
“Why?”
“It gives you too much power.”
What?“Explain.”
“I’m already living with you—inyourcondo. I’m eatingyourfood. I’m relying on you for so much, already. I can’t—it wouldn’t be smart of me to give up my work and rely on you for the money I need to spend for my public transit pass, my toiletries, awinter jacket because it’s getting colder, and I don’t have one—tuition.”
“You don’t have a winter jacket?”
“I had one, but it disappeared,” she explains tightly. “Like everything else I owned that was nice.”
Her roommate was a piece of work.
“Right.” My chest feels tight. “How about you keep one job, then. The club or the billing.”
She raises a brow. “We’re honestly having this discussion right now?”
“Fuck, yeah.” She flinches at my curse. “This won’t work if you’re never with me. A real girlfriend would be around.”
“A real boyfriend would understand his girlfriends need for a job.”
“Didn’t say you couldn’t have a job, I said pick one.”
She rolls her lips again, her eyes sliding to the side. “I make more at Addy’s.”
“Addy’s going to fire you soon. Only thing keeping you there is the fact she’s got a heart beating in her chest, much as she likes to pretend, she doesn’t. When she finds out you’re living with me, your ass will be on the chopping block.”
