In order to find the space she’d wanted at a price she wanted to pay had meant that she had chosen a house in a poorer neighborhood. XXX I don’t know, I don’t think I’m really that racist, I mean, I never thought about race stuff much growing up, let alone hear anything about a black man’s reputation. That and the touch of his rough palm made her heart skip briefly with alarm, but he released hers quickly and waited patiently to be invited inside. There was a strange buzzing in her ears that made it hard to focus on what he’d been saying. “Not tight enough,” he muttered and redid both the bottom corners. She should have gotten a clue when he tried to get her to stop short of finishing her degree.




















