Chapter 32: LAW

When I'd come home and found her note, I'd felt that sick panic in my gut. For the first time, I got a taste of what it was going to feel like when she was gone. I didn't like it.

I didn't want to feel anything; it had only been a couple of weeks, that wasn't time enough to form any sort of attachment to anyone, but it had left me feeling empty.

I listened to one of her lectures on everything that I was doing wrong, and now it was my turn to roll my eyes. You'd think she'd known me a lifetime with her million and one grievances.

She went to retrieve her rings, and I breathed easier when she came back into the room wearing them. Fuck if I know why that is.

"I don't see why I have to wear these; this is all very confusing." She turned her hand to study her rings.

"You keep saying I'm not yours; what I don't understand is why you didn't just let Mr. Davis have me or that other man you beat half to death?"

Is she trying to make me fucking crazy? "I would shut the fuck up now if I w