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"I’ll just…" Tucker got up and took off after him If I didn’t know better, I’d think that it was Tucker and Mr Hall ere married

"Why?" squealed Julie "Why ht when I’ave her sister a laser stare "Your aas bought and paid for, Julie The cere to say," her sister argued, pointing her salad fork at Bella like a spear "Couldn’t you just give Tucker the benefit of the doubt? For just a couple of hours?"

Bella rolled her eyes "I keep telling you He got plenty of benefits from me"

Their mother put her face in her hands "Why? Why must ays end up here?"

"Because he is still here," Bella said She threw her napkin on the table and stood "And that means I can’t be" Bella picked her wrap up off the back of her chair and tucked her little handbag under one arm

"Bella!" her mother called

Stunned, it tookback "Excuseto catch up with the sexy red streak as aiood runner, whether she knows it or not

Twenty

Bella

Fuck!

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck

I hightailed it out of Cipriani,poor Rafe chase after me

By the ti hard and trying not to cry

Rafe steered me down the block, across the street, and down into the subway entrance He swiped a Metrocard through the turnstile then pointed at h When he joined me on the other side, I had the presence of ?"

"Uptown," he said, steering ht I could get through tonight without wigging out"