I can only stare, eyes welling. “Cash.” “Yeah?” “Can I hug you?” He laughs. “I thought you wanted to murder me?” “I can do that too. But…thanks? For sticking up for me.” “If I’da known you, I wouldn’t have done it,” he replies with a smirk. I give his shoulder a shove. “Just when I was starting to like you.” “See?” He meets my eyes, a grin on his lips. “Charming and well adjusted as fuck. You’re welcome.”
