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Ryan slumped back, defeated

"Do you really lovethat accidentally slipped out?" I asked

His eyes narrowed "I meant every word, every tiainst the world, and we don’t deviate from that course That’s our story, remember?"

He tossed his blue papers onto the coffee table and reached for htly

Pete and Tammy arrived fifteen minutes later Pete had his toolbox in one hand and earing his tape reeted them when he slipped into the kitchen We talked about hoe could seal off the original door that opened into the pub and relocate the door to open into the kitchen It was the quickest fix

"But that means if I ever try to rent the aparth the kitchen to get in Ahh, I’ht out into the bar?" I said, pushing the kitchen swing door with ers

"That certainly is a probles were never meant to be businesses; they were all homes And if we seal off the kitchen then you’ll have safety violations for not having an eency exit"

I looked around the kitchen There was just no good way of relocating the stairwell Pete and Ryan ran back upstairs to deliberate I could hear the on the inside of the stairall

"I spoke to my brother," Ta order?"

"No" I shook my head "I’d like to keep it that way for now" I didn’t want to add any more stress to Ryan’s life "What did you find out?"

"He said you could get one if you feel she is stalking you But you’d have to go to the police and then file papers at the courthouse You’d also have to appear in court It didn’t sound siet her nah," I said proudly "She came into the bar earlier and I carded her"

"No way!" Tammy said in surprise

"On Monday she slipped a card for hiel’ but when I carded her, her license said her naelica Staunton, all the way from Brooklyn"