Chapter 119: Trouble at Home

She walks past me quickly getting in my line of sight again and trying to steer me to the left. "You are upset. Let me help. Get in my car and I'll drive you." She hits her key fob and a black super-expensive-looking sports car parked on the curb beeps.

"I'm just going to the towers," I say pointing at the apartment building visible from our bandage point.

Tiffany's smile grows. "It will still be faster to drive."

Not trusting her, but desperate to get to Ashley as quickly as possible, I open the passenger side door of the car as she waits. We drive the wrong direction away from the apartment complex, weaving through downtown's many one-way streets to get us back to the proper side of the street going in the right direction.

She stops at a red light, even though there are no cars in the deserted downtown area on the holiday weekend.

"He set you up in the towers?" she says almost tsking her disapproval. "Honey, you should have held out for someplace better."

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