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clenched together.
    “I can hear you breathing, Scarlett.”
    I jumped away from the door and held my breath. How in the hell did he hear me breathing? I looked around the apartment trying to find an escape. Just as I was about to dash to Levi’s room, he pounded on the door again. “I just want to talk to you for five minutes, Scarlett. It’s about your car.”
    “There’s nothing to say about my car. It’s dead.”
    “I found a solution to your problem. Can you just open the door?”
    “Mama! Is that Mitch?” Levi hollered as he ran out of his bedroom, straight to the door. Just as he twisted the handle open, I slammed my hand on the door, holding it shut. Levi yanked on the door and looked up at me. “Mama, it’s Mitch!”
    Double shit. Levi had been talking about Mitch non-stop for the past week, and I had tried everything in the book to distract him. Mitch at my door threw all of the distracting I’d done all week out the window. “Levi, tell your mama to open the door.”
    “Please, Mama. I wanna show Mitch all of my Transformers,” he pleaded clasping his hands together.
    “Fine, but we have to leave in five minutes, Levi. I have to be to work in half an hour.” He yanked open the door and flung himself into Mitch’s arms. He knocked Mitch back, but he managed to recover by taking two steps back and hoisted Levi up into his arms.
    “Hey, bud. Miss me?” Mitch laughed.
    “Did you come to see all of my Transformers? I’ve got them all lined up in my room.”
    “I’d love to see them, but I also came to talk to your mom for a second.”
    Levi squirmed out of Mitch’s arms and ran back to his room. “You talk to mama and then come to my room. I’ll get them ready!”
    “I bet he’s a handful.”
    “That would be an understatement. He’s my handful, though.” I crossed my arms over my chest and stood in the doorway. “You said something about my car?” I was hoping to talk to Mitch and get him out of here before Levi came out of his room.
    “Well, it’s still a pile of junk,” he smirked. “But I did come up with something. You think you could come down to the parking lot?”
    “There’s a parking lot here?” Levi and I had walked around the building countless times playing and running, and all I had ever seen was an overgrown field in the back.
    “Well, I mean down to the curb.” He smiled wide, his perfectly white teeth shining and a small dimple popping out. Wow, talk about handsome,
    “I can’t leave Levi up here by himself.”
    “Bring him with. This is for him as much as it is for you.”
    “I thought you were just going to get whatever you could for the car and just send me a check. Did you leave the check in your car?”
    “No. And I don’t have my car today. I’m driving the car hauler.” Mitch stepped around me and hollered into the apartment. “Levi! Come see the surprise I have for you and your mama.”
    Levi came barreling out of the room and ran straight into Mitch’s arms again. Mitch picked him up and headed down the hallway and looked over his shoulder at me. “You coming?”
    I didn’t really have a choice. A man I had only met once before was carrying the one thing in this world I loved down the stairs. I grabbed my purse off the counter, double checking to make sure my keys were in my pocket and slammed the door shut behind me. I sprinted down the stairs catching up to them just as Mitch opened the door.
    Levi was babbling on and on about the latest episode of the Transformers he had seen and Mitch nodded his head and gave the occasional one-word answer in between all the talking. “Wow! Did you drive that big truck here?”
    We were standing in front of a large car hauler that had a huge flatbed, and a car was on it. Mitch must have been on his way to drop off a car when he came here to give me the check. “I have to be to work, soon, Mitch.”
    “This will only take a second.” Mitch set down Levi and opened the door to the truck. He reached in