Page 573 of K.I.N.: Karma Is Near

“Shut the fuck up.”

She pulled it down, laughing.

Levin and I were…

Levin and I.

That was the best way I knew how to explain it.

We talked damn near every day.

Saw each other.

Went out sometimes.

He stayed over sometimes.

I stayed at his house sometimes.

We fucked.

We argued.

We laughed.

He checked on the kids without me asking.

And somewhere inside all of that, there were real feelings.

Strong ones.

But boyfriend?

No.

I had spent almost ten years attached to one man.

I wasn’t about to bury Xay and immediately become Levin Lawless’s woman.

That sounded fucking insane even by our family’s standards.

And Levin knew that.

Didn’t mean he liked it.

He damn sure didn’t.

But that wasn’t my problem.

I had told him exactly what this was.

I wasn’t promising exclusivity.

If somebody asked me out and I wanted to go?

I went.

I’d been on three dates in the last two months.