This was... a mess. This whole thing was a mess. Annie wasn't ready to say that her whole life was also a mess, but the thought was there. This was just adding to the garbage heap that was her current existence.
"I seem to end up in this damn city a lot more often than the brochure told me I would be," Annie announced flatly, dropped her leather satchel onto the vinyl seat of the booth before sliding in, casting a skeptical eye towards Derek.