Everyone Called Me His Girl, but He Said It Was Nothing novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: The Car
I put on my boots and went down alone.
Hayes stood in the shop doorway with his arms folded and let me cross the street without a word.
I knocked on the car window with one knuckle.
Gavin jerked upright and hit his elbow on the door.
He saw me, and then the green box in his hand, and he shoved it into his pocket.
He rolled the window down.
"How long have you been here?" I said.
"Since eleven."
"I didn't want to knock."
"You didn't want to be told to leave."
"That too."
His eyes were red.
He hadn't shaved, and there was a crease from the window across his cheek.
"I'm not here to ask you to take me back," he said.
"Good."
"I'm here because the seven days are almost up."
He reached across to the passenger seat and handed me a thick white envelope.
It was heavy with bills.
"There's nine thousand in there," he said.
"It's all I can get my hands on without her signature."
"Where did you get nine thousand dollars in cash?"
He held up his bare left wrist.
"My father's watch."
I stared at the pale stripe where it used to be.
Warren Ames's gold watch had sat on Gavin's wrist at every dinner I'd ever attended.
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