“Yeah.” She grimaced. “I know the neighbors that you were talking about earlier. They’re awful.”
Her neighborhood was smack dab in the middle of town.
Funny enough, she had Odin on her street, as well as a couple of guys from the motorcycle club.
And I’d heard Odin complain more than once about how awful one of his neighbors was.
“Well after today, I can really see how awful they are, too,” I admitted. “The doc told me that I can get your prescriptions tomorrow for you. I’ll get those in the morning before I head to work and drop them off at your place.”
“Okay,” she said softly.
“Can you put your number in my phone?” I asked. “So I can check on you?”
She shook her head. “I don’t have a cell phone. At least not one that’s hooked up to a cellular network or has the ability to connect to Wi-Fi. The only reason I carry my old one with me is because it has a lot of my old books on it, or for the off chance that I want to take a picture.”
“Landline?” I asked, not bothering to question why she wouldn’t have a cell phone.
“Maybe you can remember it,” she said. “Because I’m trying not to throw up here.”
She then rattled off her phone number, that I then repeated over and over until we hit the Sawtooth city limits.
When I pulled into the driveway of her place, she pushed the door open before I was even in Park.
I grabbed her bag that was on the floorboard still and walked with her up to the house.
I waited until she was fully inside before I set her bag of clothes on the floor right inside the door.
“Thanks,” she said again. “I’m sorry you hit me.”
My lips quirked. “Shouldn’t I be apologizing?”
“No.” She looked away. “Because we both know that it was my fault.”
Before I could argue and say that it really wasn’t either one of our faults, she closed the door and locked it.
I took that as my sign to head out and drove home.
I lived right outside Sawtooth at the base of a mountain.
My view was fucking stunning, and even in the dark, the sight always seemed to impress me.
I headed inside, slamming the door closed behind me.
I set the alarm, then headed to the shower where I took a quick one.
Then I went to bed.
And lay there.
And lay there.
And lay there.
I lay there so long that I eventually decided that I should call Birdee and check on her.
When I dialed her number, she didn’t pick up.
So I dialed it again.
