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CHAPTER 136

TIMING IS EVERYTHING

DEX

I ’m sure she’s hurting. I’m sure she still thinks about him.

Because, unlike him, she has a heart, and she poured it into this absolute trash bag of society.

I want to comfort and console her, but if I do it too quickly, she might repel my advances. And she’d be right to do so, honestly.

And it’s all so fresh, I can imagine him strategically placing an email or text or some other gesture right in her path that throws her and sucks her back in.

Forget a fucking Hoover, he’s a Roomba.

He’s running around on autopilot fucking with people’s emotions.

But he’s the filth that the Roomba cleans up.

I don’t know where I’m going with this fucking analogy, other than to say he’s despicable and she deserves so much better than him.

So I’m going to hang out for a minute, until I sense she’s ready.

As hard as it is to hang back and not jump right in, she has to fix this for herself.

There’s no other way.