Page 108 of Grumpy Sunshine

I wilted.“I thought you’d never ask.”

When we got back to my place, I stuck my key in the door, only for it to turn in my hand.

Silver was standing there eating an ice cream bar, staring at the two of us.“Where have you been?”

I blinked.“At that fundraiser for the club.Why are you here?”

She rolled her eyes.“I’m here to go with you to the bank.We had a date.”

I heard Chevy growl in frustration from behind me.

I grinned, because the entire way home, I’d been teasing him with my hand.

He’d tortured me all night long, so it seemed only fitting that I’d torture him back for the thirty-minute ride home.

I looked at my watch.“They’re about to close.”

“I know, so let’s go,” she urged.

I looked at Chevy, and he shook his head.“Go.”

I grinned and patted him on the chest, but my eyes promised him more later if he was patient.

He winked and said, “Since you’re heading to the bank, I’m going to go to my place and grab some clothes.”

His phone rang, and he answered it before I could reply.

Something swift came over his face as he said, “I’ll be there in fifteen.”

I raised a brow at him, and he said, “I’ll be here later.Don’t wait up for me.”

I sighed as I watched him walk away.

“More time for us,” Silver chirped.“Come on.Let’s go.This is so exciting!”

We made it to the bank in the Walmart in time to get my bank account opened.

I also got a brand-new Yeti cooler because I had been the 1000thcustomer to come in that month to open a bank account.

Yeti cooler and new debit card in hand, I made my way out to Silver’s car and stuffed the huge cooler into her back seat.When I reached for my phone to snap a picture, I realized I didn’t have it on me.

“Oh, I left my phone there.I’ll be right back,” I said as I rushed toward the building.

The woman who’d helped us was just locking up, and I said, “Oh, ma’am.I left my phone on your desk.”

She turned around with a smile and said, “Come on in.Let’s go…” Her voice trailed off and I looked up, following her gaze to a masked gunman standing there with a gun pointed at me.

I blinked.

Then pain exploded in my face, and I fell to the floor.

A tortured scream came from somewhere in front of me, but I was too focused on my pain to care.

Twenty-Five

Them: You have no dignity.Me: It’s pronounced diggity.

—Text from Aella to Chevy

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