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Lily didn’t say anything as Archer folded himself into her tiny Civic. He was obviously pissed off, and if the bruise on his cheek was any indication, the redness beneath his eye wasn’t the first punch he’d taken that day.
“Just drive,” he said right before she turned into her complex.
Lily flicked the blinker off and kept going. Her stomach growled, but she was more worried about Archer than how hungry she was. She headed toward Goat Island, the one place she always felt made everything better.
They crossed the bridge and entered the park. She found a parking spot near one of the trails and turned off her car.
“I haven’t been here in years.”
Lily smiled. Sometimes she forgot Jaymes and Archer grew up there since she didn’t. She had to learn her way around in college, exploring. A
