KAI~ I didn’t sleep after I left her office. I drove home with my hands locked on the wheel and her voice still in my head, that quiet *I am trying so hard to do the right thing* sitting in my chest like a bruise. I kept seeing her hands on my shirt. I kept feeling how close my mouth had gotten to hers before Cole turned that handle and wrecked the only honest minute we’d had all week. The night before last was still sitting there too. After I left her place in Kitsilano, after I sent that text, someone nearly took my front door off the hinges. Bang. Bang. I had jerked up in bed thinking the building was coming down. It was Reed from the third line, drunk off his ass, pounding because he’d seen my truck in the garage and decided midnight was a good time to ask why I skipped the rookie

