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last bit of me from my past life. I pulled out the boxes in the plastic bag and smiled so he couldn’t see. At least he picked out a good color.
    “Did y ou pick this out yourself?”
    A small smile spread across his face, and I wanted to smile in return, but found my stubbornness coming out instead. “No, the girl that was working did.”
    I knew he was lying, and that was fine. I would let him have his moment of weakness for me in private. If he didn’t want me to know that he was an actual human being with feelings, then I was bound and determined to ignore him all together.

 
 
 
 
 
Eight
     
     
    Ky
    “Your contact will be there shortly, Wakely. His name is Howser. He’s a short and stocky guy with dark brown hair and hazel eyes. He will knock three times, then ring the bell.”
    “Thanks, Tom. Talk to ya soon.” I hung up the phone and wandered around the house we would be living in for who knows how long. It was a nice enough place. Nicer than I had ever seen. When you grow up close to dirt poor, you learn to appreciate the finer things in life. This was definitely one of those times.
    I opened the fridge and found that it had been fully stocked for us. Despite there being more food than I could have ever needed, there was also a twelve pack of beer. My boss knew me all too well. I cracked open a bottle and sat my soon to be drunk ass down on one of the couches. Lyndley had disappeared upstairs about twenty minutes ago, and I had yet to see her again.
    If I were a different kind of man I would’ve gone upstairs to check on her, but I wasn’t, so I sat comfortably in my seat and drank my beer in peace. I knew soon enough that she would be back downstairs and rambling my ear off, or being the entitled princess that I knew her to be thus far. I took a long pull on the bottle and almost choked on the cold liquid as she came walking down the stairs.
    The minute her foot hit the bottom step, I had to readjust my position and try not to stare. She had been beautiful as a blonde, but seeing her as a brunette and her striking emerald green eyes that popped now, made me practically want to jump up and claim her as mine. She turned hesitantly towards me, waiting for me to say something to her. The things I wanted to say, I couldn’t. So I kept it short and to the point.
    “Looks good.” There wasn’t much else I could say to her without giving too much away, so I went back to staring at my bottle of beer while I picked at the label.
    She opened her mouth to say something snide I’m sure, but she was cut off by a knock on the door. She quickly looked back and forth between it and me, and I just let out a small laugh as I waited for the two knocks to follow and the doorbell. Once the doorbell made a ding, I stood and made my over to answer it. I looked through the peephole to make sure the guy who stood on the other side matched the description Tom gave me, and sure enough he did.
    I pulled the door open and ushered him inside. “Hi, I’m Wakely.” I held my hand out for him to take.
    “ Howser. Nice to meet ya, man.”
    He took my hand and then I pointed in Lyndley’s directio n. “This is Ms. Caverly. Sorry, I mean Lyndley.”
    He moved in Lyndley’s direction, holding out his hand as she graciously accepted it. “Ms. Cavelry, it’s a pleasure.”
    “Please, call me Lyndley. It’s nice to meet you as well.”
    “Please take a seat, Howser.” I could see the aggravated look Lyndley was giving me out of the corner of her eye. I knew every time I was pleasant to someone else and curt with her, it drove her insane.
    “Okay, so let’s get down to business.” Howser reached behind him and pulled out a large manila envelope. “Here are your new identities. There are passports, driver licenses, a marriage certificate, bankcards, and about ten thousand dollars. Tom will have more wired into an account in both of y’all’s names.”
    We both watched Lyndley closely as she reached for her new