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I must have stayed that way on the floor for a good half an hour. Stunned and hurt.
Then I got myself together.
If she were someone else, I wouldn’t have seen past the shit talk. It would have been the end of our friendship with that slap.
But this was Christina, I needed to know what was going on with her and what she was going to do.
I had a bad feeling about all of this. There were too many parts that were missing from this story.
Many parts that didn’t fit either.
I had to be sure to get it right if I was going to assume that she was talking about Elliot. Was he the father? Or not. Did she tell him she was pregnant and he said he didn’t want anything to do with her, because the baby wasn’t his?
Or because it was?
Too many questions.
I needed answers, and I needed to obviously be there for my friend.
Oh Christina. I’m so sorry.
This was all my fault.
Chapter 22
Maria
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Present day …
I was never the sit down and look type.
I wasn’t that years ago when I didn’t have much to worry about and I for damn certain wasn’t that kind of person now.
Sit down and look while Dante was out there doing God knew what.
I didn’t know how I kept from withering away when he told me there was new evidence he was looking into.
Still he didn’t elaborate. I noticed that part. He didn’t tell me what he had found and he didn’t tell me what he was doing either. Two very important things excluded.
It terrified me to think what it could be, but he was right.
I wanted answers too. I definitely wanted answers.
Damn I was just here with Flynn and the guys.
The guys who I actually couldn’t stand from way back when.
Saul with his full set of gold teeth, Donny the flirt, and Lois who was practically attached to his long reach knives.
Some other guys were on watch outside the house too. Scary looking tough guys I hadn’t seen before.
Saul, Lois, and Donny were inside the house.
It was lunch time and I’d made sandwiches. Then suddenly I found myself making more food like I used to when I waitressed and served food for everyone.
And, because I was so worried I couldn’t eat.
