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"CARLIE," DREW SCREAMED as I walked in the door of Trouble. "I missed you."
He rushed over and hugged me. Drew could be weird like that. I’d missed that little guy too, though.
"Sure, Drew."
"Seriously, Carlie, no one else is nice to me like you are."
I made a note that I had to be meaner to Drew. I couldn't have him thinking I was all soft and easy. Even the smell of Trouble, stale beer and old rockers, made me happy. This was my place in the world. The place I belonged.
Holden followed me in the door and suddenly, the talking stopped. All eyes looked from him to me and back again. And every pair of eyes burned with questions.
Well, not all of them, of course. Random customers probably didn’t care. But Alex and Violet definitely burned.
I didn't explain. I didn’t want to put things into words at the moment.
It was good to be home.
Hell, I still had the picture of Holden with devil horns behind the bar. I rushed over to tear it down.
“Leave it up,” he said. “I kinda like it.”
As I glanced around the place, something was missing. It took a minute to put my finger on it. There was a big Jackson-shaped space at the corner of the bar with no Jackson sitting in it.
"Where's Jackson?"
"That's a mystery," Drew said. "He was here one night and then Gina left, crying, and Jackson hasn't been back in."
Shit, that did not sound good. That didn’t sound good at all.
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