Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout, #1)

by Lucy Score

TWENTY-EIGHT THIRD BASE Knox “She ran away from home,” Naomi said, staring out the window and clutching the bag of warm pretzels in her lap. “She didn’t run away. She snuck out,” I argued. “Either way, how does that make me look as a guardian? I let an eleven-year-old walk into town with a jar of mice and a computer virus.” “Daze, you need to stop gettin’ yourself so worked up over this custody thing. Do you really think any judge in their right mind is going to decide Way is better off with her mom?” She turned flashing eyes on me. “How about when your life choices are under a microscope by the legal system, you can decide not to get worked up?” I shook my head and turned onto a trail barely wide enough for my truck. “This isn’t work,” she observed. “Not goin’ back to work yet,” I told her as we bumped along the rutted track. “I need to get back. I have a shift that I should have already been working,” she insisted. “Baby, you need to stop obsessing about the things you should be doing and make some time for the shit you wanna do.” “I want to get back to work. I don’t have time for you to murder me in the woods today.” The trees parted, and a field of tall grass opened up before us. “Knox, what are you doing?” “I just watched you stand up to that bully who was trying to take her shit out on a kid,” I began. “Some people don’t know what to do with their pain,” Naomi said, looking out the window again. “So they take it out on whoever is nearby.” “Yeah, well, I liked watchin...