This cannot be.
Fuck.
What am I doing here?
I stop the kiss.
Hold my breath.
Stare at her.
Take a step back.
My hands shoot in front of me to keep her away.
Fuck.
Horror surges through me as I realize what I have done.
I have broken the most important rule.
She made me?—
She pushes herself off the street light.
Walks against my hands.
“You played me,” I whisper in a shaky voice.
“Are you telling me I made you do something you didn’t want to do?” she asks and brushes back a strand of my hair, turns, and walks away with a long shadow following her from the next street light, leaving me standing here in a whirlwind of the mess I created.
11
AVERY
PLAYLIST: LONELY BOY - 2021 REMASTER – THE BLACK KEYS
Iwalk.
Away from her.
I knew I was right about what effect I have on her.
What I didn’t anticipate was the reaction she had to me.
I brush over my lips.
I haven’t kissed anyone since?—
My head twitches slightly, and I roll my shoulders back to remove the sensation that tries to arise in me.
You gotta focus on what matters,I tell myself in my mind.
Shaw asking me to look into the Fullerton was the best thing that could have happened in a long time. That heist had been done by his ex-wife, Susie. She is a friend of mine.
Well, rather an acquaintance. I don’t have friends. I have Rossi, whom I declare as family, and then there are people I know but don’t trust because they’re as tricky as I am.
Unfortunately, Susie didn’t get to the most important thing in her ex-husband’s collection. A husband she only got because she wanted to access his collection and the circles he was in.