Angsty - Enemies to Lovers - Slow Burn
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Hitch Pepper might've had a stupid name, and a personality that drove me crazy, but that didn't stop her from being gorgeous. Everyone knew it, guys and girls alike.
And my buddy Phil Childre...
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I WAS THERE the night Hitch Pepper got shot, nursing a beer in a bar that would close down two decades later because the owner liked to evade his taxes.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, Hitch Pepper was just a few bars down the street shooting up heroin in the grimy bathroom as her seedy ex-boyfriend scoured the bar for her, a pistol tucked in the waistband of his Levi's.
Years before that night, it would've been hard for me to imagine Hitch in that state. Slumped up against the smoke-stained wall of a public restroom, her eyes half-lidded as her ex kicked open the door and opened fire.
But now, as I look back at it, I should've seen it coming all along.
