Chapter 96
~ Hailey ~
Nathaniel and I arrived at my place in the Riverside District—the part of the city that real estate agents called "up-and-coming" but everyone else knew was just code for "poor." The kind of neighborhood where corner stores had bars on the windows and streetlights flickered more often than they stayed lit.
It was the city of the poor. A place where Nathaniel, with his expensive cars and tailored suits and Bellamy name, had probably never stepped foot before.
I used to live here with Trice before she'd moved in with her boyfriend—the one who kept asking her for money, the one I'd refused to enable. The apartment had felt less lonely when it was the two of us, sharing rent and groceries and late-night conversations about our dreams of something better.
Now it was j
