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No.
He’s clearly hurt by his own past and he has a son to raise. He doesn’t need to be worrying about dating. Neither do I for that matter.
I push Jared out of my head, and try to forget about the fact his son is adorable, that Jared himself is gorgeous. My past is just as messy as Jared’s and I really don’t want to drag him into my disastrous life.
Simone reappears from behind a large dresser. “Girl, you’re going to need a month to sort this crap out.”
She’s not wrong about this. I’m going to be here forever, but it’s worth it for the items I can sell in the antiques store. Some of these items should fetch some money.
We load the things I definitely want to keep onto the van and lock the rest of the things back up in the storage unit to be sorted another day.
I drive us back to the shop and Simone helps me unload everything into a back room that I keep for stock.
“Are you seriously keeping that ugly assed portrait?” she asks as she leans it against the wall.
“I’m intrigued by it. I want to know who painted it and why, where it came from.” I stare at the painting. “I know a valuer with much better knowledge than me. He may be able to get to the bottom of where it originated.”
I want to try and dig up some information myself, but Simone is right. It’s a little creepy, but I push that down. My inner historian is twitching, desperate to know something—anything—about it.
