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time to talk.”
    She closed her eyes and whimpered.
    “Stop whining,” he said. “I’ve made you a coffee.”
    Resigning herself to the inevitable, Kat dragged herself out of bed and then noticed that she was in her underwear.
    Holy Lord… how did that little detail escape my attention this morning?
    She found her pj bottoms and ran her fingers through her short hair. Nothing to do about the shadows circling her eyes, or her pallor, but a coffee might make her feel semi-human, at least. She walked out to the living room slowly, afraid of what was coming next.
    Jim was sitting there, a book on the table in front of him. A steaming cup of coffee caught her attention and she sniffed the air with appreciation.
    “Thanks for the coffee,” she said.
    “Uh-huh.” His eyes were nailing her to the spot. “Come sit.”
    Kat lowered her aching body in to the chair across from him, and lifted the coffee to her lips. She sighed.
    “God, that’s good.”
    “You hungry?’ he said.
    She shuddered. “Oh, man. No. Thank you.”
    “OK.” He leaned back, his body open, his face closed. “So. Where the fuck have you been for the past week?”
    She almost laughed.
    God. This is just so – so Jim .
    “Here, mostly.” She took another sip of coffee. “Just hanging out here.”
    “That’s interesting, ‘cause your neighbor said she hadn’t seen you in days.”
    “Sure. Because I was here . Like, in this chair. I didn’t leave this apartment until five nights ago.”
    “Food?”
    “I ordered in. Slept late. Let the mail pile up downstairs.”
    Jim regarded her. “Why?”
    She shrugged, looked away from that intense golden stare. “I just – I needed some time on my own.”
    “Why did you turn off your phone?”
    “Same reason.”
    “The girls have been worried sick. Why’d you do that to them?”
    She shrugged again.
    “That’s not an answer, babe.”
    “It’s the only answer you’re going to get.”
    “Like hell it is. You just fucked off on every single person in your life who cares about you, and now you think you can just swan on in, act like nothing happened? Like you didn’t scare us all to death? No way, Kat. You tell me what’s going on with you, and I mean right now.”
    She started to get angry. “It’s none of your damn business.”
    “Oh, you think?” Jim leaned forward, his upper body somehow appearing even larger. “It is my damn business! You want to know why?”
    “Why?”
    “Because I got a phone call at two o’clock in the morning to come and get your drunk ass from a pick-up bar out on the highway. You were surrounded by ex-cons eyeing you up and down, and if Jax hadn’t done the decent thing and helped you out, where do you think you could be right now?”
    She stared at her hands.
    “You know what happened to Jenny, right, when a bunch of drunk assholes got ahold of her? You looking for something like that to happen to you?”
    Enraged, Kat got to her feet. “Don’t you dare imply that what happened to Jenny was her fault, like she went looking for it!”
    “Oh, I know she didn’t, sweetheart. But there you were – alone and wasted in a bad place. Were you looking to get yourself hurt for some reason? You punishing yourself for something?”
    Kat opened her mouth again, and was stunned and horrified when a sob burst out. She covered her mouth and turned away from Jim, trying to hide her tears.
    Right away, he was there, holding her. He ran his fingers through her hair as she cried, her legs weak and trembling under her. Kat just rested her head on his broad chest and let it happen, she just let herself be comforted.
    “Shhhh. Sweetheart, it’s OK.” He felt her shaking get worse and he held on tighter. “Kat, please. Tell me what’s going on so I can help you.”
    “I – I can’t.”
    “Kat –”
    “ I can’t !” She shoved him away from her as she screamed, she shoved hard, and he backed up. “Stop asking me, Jim. I just – I can’t talk about