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HUDSON
I nodded at Joey as he walked in and resisted the urge to ask him how his mom was.
I hadn’t seen her since I spent the night in her living room and cooked breakfast for their family. She was weird when I left, weirder than normal, and she’d been avoiding me since.
At least, I was convinced she was avoiding me. I couldn’t actually prove it, but I hadn’t gone a full week without seeing her since Joey started working for me and she barged into my bar and demanded I don’t hire him.
Even that first day, I knew she was going to f**k up my life. But back then, I thought it was going to be in a very different way. Not in a consuming my thoughts and wishing I could see her kind of way.
Joey went to work, and I pushed Anna from my mind. I had s**t to do, and no time to wonder how a wo
