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give me my space. Come to think of it, he hadn’t pissed me off quite to that level in some time.
    I shouldn’t jinx myself.
    Driving home, I couldn’t help but be grateful at the way some parts of my life turned out. I’d always done well in school. I wasn’t a genius by any means, but I certainly was book-smart. Since I was a young child, I knew I wanted to be a nurse. Actually, I wanted to be a doctor but we didn’t have the money for such an expensive education, so nursing was the next best option.
    My mother had been in and out of hospitals since I was in grade school, battling one illness after the other, all the while her spirits shining bright. She was the strongest woman in the world, and I was devastated when she’d been taken from me at the tender age of forty-six. I was only twenty-one, and I wasn’t ready to lose my best friend. Who was I going to talk to when I was having relationship issues? Who was going to help me plan my wedding, if such a thing ever happened for me one day? Who was going to teach me how to be a mother, if my life was ever graced with little ones?
    My uncle Trigger was my mother’s younger brother, and since her passing, he had become even more protective over me, especially during the times when I was at the club. I couldn’t even count how many men he’d threatened when it came to me, or how many of them had met the end of his fist. Uncle Trig was just shy of fifty, much older than some of the men, but he had a mean right hook, so they knew enough not to piss him off. While I loved him dearly, sometimes my heart ached looking at him because of the resemblance he shared with my mother. It was quite uncanny. They had shared the same almond-shaped eyes and full cheeks, along with the same shade of brown hair, although his had been greying for quite some time.
    Turning the key in the lock, I opened the door, but before I stepped inside, my next-door neighbor stuck his head out of his apartment and unintentionally scared me.
    “Sorry, Adelaide. I didn’t mean to startle you,” Robby said, smiling quickly to relieve any fright he’d just caused me. Dropping the hand clutching my chest, I returned his smile.
    When I moved here two years ago, Robby was one of the first people I’d encountered and I couldn’t have been happier. He was six years younger than me, which put him right at the tender age of eighteen when I met him. For him to be living on his own was surprising, but when he explained he didn’t have any family to speak of, I understood. He’d bounced around the foster care system his entire youth, and the second he could escape, he did. Graduating high school—which was a feat in itself, because he told me how much he struggled with his studies—he secured a job as well as his own place. He’d been living in the building ever since.
    “That’s okay, Robby. How are you?” I asked, stifling a yawn I knew was coming.
    “Great,” he replied, smiling wider since I was engaging him in conversation. I think he had a little crush on me, which was a nice ego boost, seeing as how he was quite the handsome little devil. Dark curls adorned the top of his head, defined cheekbones and full lips setting him apart from a lot of young men his age. He’d been much too thin when I first met him, but since then he’d filled out rather nicely. I tried not to notice because he was so much younger than me, but I was only human. Making sure never to encourage him, I treated him like I would my kid brother’s friend, if I had a kid brother. “Hey, I tried out a new recipe. Wanna taste it?” His new thing was cooking, something I benefited from on numerous occasions.
    “Not tonight. I’m exhausted. How about tomorrow?” I offered.
    His face fell, but with the hopes he could indulge me the next day, his blue eyes lit up. I made a mental note to see if there were any available young women at the hospital I could set him up with. We were scheduled to have a new class of nursing