TWENTY SIXIVIN POVShe is not worth it.She's nothing but an expensive headache.Pick up her brother, have him pay the debt, leave her.Don't get attached.My own mind had been volunteering unsolicited opinions at me for the past twenty four hours more than it had bothered to in the last ten years combined and I would still very much like to believe that I was not the issue here. That something external had malfunctioned, maybe it was the scotch.Except that was the thing. I don't drink, not at celebrations, not at funerals, not at the kind of evenings that turn into mornings and leave everyone else reaching for something with alcohol in it just to get through the next hour. I've only stocked to Water, always, only, without exception and yet here I was sitting in front of a glass of scotch I had poured and not touched.I sat with it like it was company, because after Nala got into that car and the door closed and the car moved and took her with it I had walked back into the buildi
Read more