He Ranked Her First, I Chose Myself novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Wednesday Clinic
I looked down at the two keys in my palm.
The new one was bright and sharp.
The old one was warm from his pocket.
"You're giving me your door," I said.
"I'm giving you a key to it." He shrugged, but his ears had gone red. "You can keep it on the ring and never use it. It's not a question."
"It feels like a question."
"Okay. It's a little bit of a question."
The cops had stopped dancing to watch.
So had Jodie.
I held the ribbon up so everyone could see both keys.
"I'm keeping both," I said.
The bar made a noise.
The clinic opened on Wednesday, September second, at seven o'clock.
Of course it did.
Thirty-one thousand dollars had turned the empty second-floor apartment into something I kept walking through just to look at it.
A waiting room with real chairs.
Two exam rooms with real tables, paper on rolls, lights that weren't clamped to anything.
A supply closet with labels.
A sink that ran hot in under a minute.
At the top of the stairs, over the new door, Fitz had screwed my old sign to the wall.
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