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“Nah. You’re better at that shit. You’re the mean one out of all of us.”
That was probably true. “Thanks.”
“No problem.” He snickered, then looked closer at me, tilting his head. “You okay?”
My lip twitched. “Yeah. Why?”
“I don’t know. You seem…preoccupied, maybe?”
“Nope,” I lied. “I’m good.”
He squinted. “Okay. Whatever you say.”
After Brayden left, I headed up to 410, unsure how to approach this. All I knew about the woman who lived there was that she was a single mom. I sympathized with her in that respect; it couldn’t be easy dealing with those kids. But she never responded or did shit about all the other warnings we’d issued over the past several months. I knew it wasn’t always possible to control teenagers, but there was only so much the other tenants could tolerate.
I took a deep breath before knocking on her door.
The door opened. “Finally. It’s about ti—” She paused.
Huh?
It felt like all of the air had rushed from my body. In fact, I might have been hallucinating, because the woman in front of me wasnotthe middle-aged lady who lived in this apartment with her kids.
Not her at all.
But I knew this person.
I knew this bohemian beauty intimately. I just never thought I’d see her again.
What the hell is she doing here?
Practically speechless, I uttered,“Devyn?”
She shook her head. “No. I’m sorry.”
The door slammed closed.
“I’m sorry.”
That was the last thing she’d said to me before she left me in the hotel, and now it was the last thing she’d said before she shut the damn door in my face.
Think.
Think.
What do I do?
My pride got the best of me. I decided not to knock again.Fuck that.I was not one to grovel or push things. I didn’t know whether to be pissed or confused right now.
She clearly didn’t want to see me. But I had a job to do at this place, and she wasn’t even the person I needed to speak to.Is she the nanny?That had to be it.
I was going to need some time to think about how to approach things.
Did that really just happen, or was I in the middle of one fucked-up dream?
***
After leaving the hospital, I opted to walk the several blocks back to the building in order to clear my head.
