❛ sick of all these people talking, sick of all this noise. ❜
“Talk is my money, honey.”
She lifted herself from the bar, tossing the cost of her tab onto the counter and nodded to the exit. Touch was a sense she both avoided and exploited every day, her fingers dancing across his forearm to beckon him to follow. It was her game, knowing how to entice or deceive—sometimes both.
The man before her didn’t seem all that easy to do either. He kept to himself almost the entire night as she wasn’t sure if she even saw a drop of booze touch his lips. Maybe he followed out of pure curiosity, or he just hated the drunk bar patrons that much.
“Bilgewater don’t sleep darlin’, ‘cept maybe when the mist rolls through. But I hope the outside is a little more accommodating noise-wise?”
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