Chapter 91

I spend the morning filling out applications and emailing Jake’s assistant back over the apartments she’s sent me to look over. Choosing a couple that I think look nice, I tell her to set me up viewings as soon as possible. One is small, close to the school, and looks cozy and easy to maintain. My instant gut reaction to the pictures is that it is more than a possibility.

Arrick came back so late last night I didn’t even hear him come home. I was asleep and oblivious to when he returned after tossing and turning myself unconscious. I don’t want to know anything about where they were, what they said, or what they did. I don’t even want to know when he showed up because my mind will probably point in directions that kill me about what they could’ve been doing half the night at her apartment. I’m so unable to cope with that kind of agony nowadays; somehow, knowing they did that stuff in the past was more manageable. I could ignore it, but now, I think I may cry myself to death if