Lia awoke the next morning in her apartment to find a unexpected knock on her door. With there having been the victory the night before, she found herself to sleep like a young infant within its mother's arms. Therefore, as she went to the door she had expected it to be a doorman-filling in for Baron since his wound, or even the front desk having sent someone up with a package. But as she tore open the front door with her Snow White, bird chirping kind of morning, she came face to face with Jewel on the other side of her door. Just as she had done with the boys’ apartment, she went to walk right in and make herself at home before Lia had closed to door to stop this from happening.
“You may be able to walk all over them. But you won’t do it to me. Not in the place I pay for.”
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