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I gave it to him.

He paused when he saw what was up on the screen. “My eyes?”

“I was looking for an app on my phone,” I admitted. “I was trying to find the bear on my own before I made any calls to my asshole ex or my mom.”

He hummed. “Not called ‘My eyes,’” he said. “It’s called ‘See For Me.’ I put it on your home screen, down at the bottom. Bottom left corner. You should be able to find it pretty easily from there.”

He kept typing away, the sounds of my buttons clicking away on my iPhone letting me know he was still working.

Then his hand was reaching for mine and he placed the phone in my hand. “In there under Gee. G-E-E.”

I nodded.

“See you around, Benny,” he teased.

“Bye, Gee.”

I hated the sound of my door closing behind him.

I hated even more that he was such a nice guy, and I had to stay away from him.

People really did suck.

I’m not as mean as I could be, and I want people to be more grateful for that.

—Garrett to his mom

GARRETT

I checked up on her.

I had to.

And what I saw broke my heart.

She didn’t leave the house all that much. When she did, she had the white cane with her, and it was only to walk around the lobby, then it was right back up to her place.

She didn’t leave the building. Didn’t try to take the bus. Hell, she even had her groceries delivered.

Of course, I got a lot of this from the downstairs attendant, Mission.

Mission was a fifty-year-old man with a wife and three kids that all worked at DPD with us. He’d worked there himself for twenty-five years as a janitor when I’d told him about this place.

He’d made the move because he loved the hours, and it was closer to his home since he couldn’t drive anymore.

“You’re sure she hasn’t left?” I asked.

“Nope,” he stated. “It’s just me and Mr. Turnball. Neither him nor I have seen her leave. She gets groceries delivered on Tuesdays. She sets her trash out on Thursdays. But other than that…”

She hadn’t left the apartment.

Shit.

“Okay,” I said, wishing that I hadn’t told myself it was best to stay away from her.

But it would absolutely kill me if anything had happened to her because I was careless, and she was seen with me.

My brothers were fine. They could all take care of themselves.

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