Burn #1 by Dawn Steele

Author:Dawn Steele [Steele, Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

“Yes. When you get a proper job, I can take you shopping again. Dress you up in nicer clothes that don’t make you look like you have extra ten pounds padding. We can do your hair too in one of those nicer, more upgraded styles. You’ll look really pretty.”

She’s pleased despite herself.

He adds, “Have you given that waitressing job a thought?”

She has already decided she is not going to take it. Not with Billy on the alert.

“I’ll find something else.”

He mock scowls. “OK, but don’t ask me to do you any more favors.”

She lays her hand on his arm, aware that this is the exact gesture she has seen the dark-haired woman do to him. “It’s not like that, Devon. I’m really grateful for everything. I’ll go get a job today, I promise.”

Of course, he may be pushing her to get a job so that she can get a place of her own and be out of his hair.

He nods. “I’m not trying to rush you or anything, but I figured you might want to get on with your life.”

With me out of it, she reads. The thought of it makes her inexplicably sad.

He remarks, “I’m going to see Billy today too . . . to pick up that mural job where I left off.”

She smiles. “You never started.”

“Well, I didn’t have the inspiration before. I do now.”

They exchange meaningful glances. She can only hope that this is the start of him paying his own way without having to be bank-rolled by any sadistic female freak.

“I’m going out now,” she finally says. “I’ll catch you later.”

He looks so beautiful in the natural light of his studio/lounge, even in his overalls covered with smudges of different colored paints. A frog bolts into her throat.

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