smiling. I shouldn’t get into this emotional stuff, I
really don’t want to. I know this is not my
territory.
“It really ended that badly?” I find myself
saying, without knowing why.
She doesn’t answer, just looks out the passenger
side window and we continue in silence until she’s
forced to speak to me in order to give directions.
We get out of the car and start walking towards
the door of the main building in which there are a
maximum of two apartments. Erin uses the key to
open it and we go up a ramp of stairs that brings us
to a door to the upstairs apartment. She takes a
deep breath and slowly opens it, making a sign that
I should go in. As soon as we close the door, that
asshole makes his triumphant appearance.
“I should have known you would have brought
that gorilla,” Nate says.
Gorilla? What’s his beef with me? Is this the
date he wants written on his tombstone?
“I don’t have a car, Nate. You know that.”
“You could have taken a taxi.”
“You could mind your own fucking business
and tell us where her things are,” I say without
bothering to censor my words.
“They’re bunched up over there,” he says,
indicating behind him. “I went to the trouble of
putting it all away so you don’t have any more
stress.”
He speaks almost sarcastically. I can see that he
