Monster by Gadziala Jessica

Author:Gadziala, Jessica [Gadziala, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-02T08:00:00+00:00

Fourteen

Breaker

I was half-surprised when her place hadn't been ransacked. And when the surprise wore off, worried. It should have been torn apart. Whatever the fuck Lex had planned for Alex, it should have involved going through her shit, figuring her out. The fact that he hadn't done that was yet another thing in a long list of things that just didn't make sense.

Alex didn't seem phased by it as she went right to her closet and dragged out a large black duffel bag and started stuffing clothes into it.

I looked around her place again, this time able to take my time, see it with clearer eyes.

She really didn't have shit. No pictures. No knickknacks. No art or books. Nothing that would let you know who she was underneath it all. I wondered fleetingly if she even knew who that person was.

“How bad is the Chinese below?” I asked, thumbing through one of her coded notebooks.

“Bad. But I've had worse,” she said, grabbing a handful of bras out of her dresser.

“You ain't gonna need those,” I said, nodding to her hand. “I'm gonna go grab some food. Not that your burnt toast wasn't delicious, doll, but I need real food.”

“Ha ha,” she said, taking the bras and stuffing them into her bag regardless of my having no intentions of letting her wear them. “What? You're not even going to ask me what I want?” she asked, sounding genuinely annoyed at the idea as I stood in the doorway.

“Figured I'd get a bunch of shit to share.”

“What if I didn't like what you ordered?” she asked, putting her hands to her hips.

“Are we seriously arguing about fuckin' Chinese food?”

“It's more your presumptuousness that's the issue.”

She could argue about anything. Heatedly. I knew if I didn't give in that we were gonna go a couple rounds. For no good fuckin' reason. That was just how she was. And if it wasn't so fuckin' hot, I would probably find it annoying. “Fine, doll. What do you want to eat?”

At this, she dropped her hands from her hips and shrugged. “I'll eat anything.”

It was so ridiculous and unexpected, I found myself throwing my head back and laughing. “You fuckin' serious?” I asked through it. “You bitch at me about not asking you what you want when you don't give a fuck what I order?”

“Like I said... it was the principle of the thing.”

Jesus Christ.

She was a fuckin' nut.

But I walked down the fire escape smiling.

I was watching the people behind the counter load up the brown bag with soy sauce and mustard packets when my cell rang. The sound immediately filled me with dread. I had no other jobs going on. And while it wasn't uncommon to get a call about a new one, they usually began with a tentative text with a passcode first so they knew it was really me before they got me on the phone.

I reached for it and hit the call button.

“Yo.”

“Breaker,” Lex's slimy voice met my ear and confirmed the churning feeling in my gut.

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