When Bella made it back to Albert’s that night, she wasn’t sure what he was going to say. She wondered if he’d even let her in the door. But she was going to tell him everything, like she and Julia talked about, and she would let him decide how they would proceed.
She knocked on the door instead of simply letting herself in. She waited, blowing on her cold hands, until he opened the door.
“Why did you knock?” he asked when he saw it was her on the step. “Did you lose your keys? Where are your keys?”
“I wasn’t sure if I was still welcome here,” Bella answered honestly.
Albert nodded, then stepped back so she could walk in. He stood a few feet away while she removed her coat and hung it up, then put her purse on top of it and grabbed her phone.
“Why him?”
“Ryan?”
Albert nodded.
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