Chapter Nineteen

“I was always there, Miss lomie. Out of sight, but there. You and Kelly were too drunk to even walk straight that night, but there were no cabs, and the bus didn’t go where you needed to go. So you ended up walking—and I use the term ‘walking’ very loosely—all the way home. Seventeen blocks. At two in the morning”

I shuddered as I remembered that night. We had been living together then, in a shitty-ass apartment downtown. We rarely ventured outside past dark and never, ever, alone. That night, though, we did. And we’d thought, the next day, that it was a miracle we’d made it home alive. Now I was starting to think it was less a miracle than Harris’s unseen protection.

“That was an insanely bad decision on our part,” I said. “We woke up the next day amazed that we’d made it home intact.”

“You shouldn’t have,” he said. “You almost didn’t.”

“What?” I took a sip of Scotch, for courage. “What do you mean?”

Marcus answered. “Kelly was so drunk you basically carried her the whole way. She co