The Internet Told Him to Leave Me, but He's Still Holding Me novel · Chapter 18 of 24

Chapter 18: The Comic

Knox looked at the paint on his thumb.

Then he looked at me, in his inside-out flannel, with a pencil in my hair at three in the morning.

"Okay," he said. "I'll wait."

"You're not mad?"

"I've waited for worse things. I waited six days for a sandwich review once."

"That's not true."

"Day six. You never said if you ate them."

I put my face in his chest and laughed until he pulled the guest blanket over both of us.

My editor wrote back at nine.

"Annika. Spread sixteen. I cried at my desk. It's going straight to print."

I read it out loud to Knox in the kitchen, and he picked me up and spun me once, and my socks came off.

Then I had nothing due, for the first time since September.

So I finished the other one.

The true one.

I worked three days straight on it, at the drafting table, in the window, in the snow light.

Day 1. A girl reads a thread and turns over in bed.

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