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Then she froze, staring at the entrance. “He’s coming. Please leave. Please just go.”
“The hell is this?” he barked right in her face. “You begging strangers for money again?”
She flinched. “I didn’t ask him for anything. He just—”
I stepped in before he could yank her again. “I filled it,” I said. “She didn’t ask. She didn’t do a damn thing wrong.”
He finally looked at me. Really looked. Six-foot-three, two forty, leather vest covered in forty-plus years of patches, gray beard down to my chest. I looked exactly like what I am: an old biker who doesn’t scare easily.
“She doesn’t look like she wants to go anywhere with you,” I said, stepping between him and the door.