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My phone rests on the windowsill so I don’t have to keep taking it in and out of the holster. I go back to staking out the hotel room across the street. It’s ten minutes later before it buzzes again.
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Wildflower:I appreciate the concern but just because you fucked me into calling you my boyfriend doesn’t mean I have to do everything you say now
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I type in my reply, my fingers hammering a bit too hard on my screen. My irritation is reaching a breaking point. Why can’t she see that I’m looking out for her?
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Me:Oh we’re playing that game again? Fine
Me:But FYI the next time I do fuck you into something? You won’t be calling me your boyfriend you’ll be screaming it loud enough your neighbors will hear you through the walls
Me:Now stop sassing me when I’m trying to track a skip who literally eats people Seriph
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Wildflower:EATS PEOPLE?
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I’m amused at her response despite my annoyance. She somehow manages to make me smile like an idiot even when she’s being difficult. I type back with one hand while watching out the window.
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Me:Yeah he's a psycho and the sooner I find his ass the sooner I get outta this shitty motel and come home to deal with a different pain in the ass who keeps making me worry
Me:Helen there yet?
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Wildflower:No I texted her and told her I was fine and that it was just men overreacting about stuff they don’t understand she did send a delivery of some soup and told me to take it easy though
Wildflower:Griffin? Don’t get eaten
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I can’t help but laugh. I’m feeling a dozen different kinds of frustration and anger. Not at her, not really. At myself. I’m the one that made promises to protect her and then left her alone to deal with, of all things, her damn period.
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Me:You’re really gonna make me come back there and put you in a damn bubble?
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Wildflower:You could try. I’d just pop it
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Skip be damned. My focus is officially shot now. I can’t concentrate on a stakeout and wait hours when I’m worried about whether or not she’s doubled over her store counter because she’s too stubborn to go lay the hell down.
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Me:That’s it I’m wrapping this shit up early
