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"There’s not really much to tell" I said smoothly "I stayed in a small town called Palm Bonita and basically just sat around and waited until I was able to coaveDid you make any friends?"

"Not really" I shook my head "I kept to myself most of the time"

"A, that’s awful What were the people like? Did they ask you where you came from?" Her eyes were excited "I bet they were all curious as to who you were"

"Not really" Which was true The people in Palm Bonita didn’t ask questions because they didn’t want anyone to ask the, either

"So what did you do?" She looked confused "Just sat and watched TV?"

"I did a lot of TV watching" I nodded "Not much else I didn’t really have any friends, so I was by myself quite a bit"

"So," she paused "No special lady friends?" Her eyes looked into ly, andhorrible as I did so But I knew that Robin didn’t want to know about my relationship in Palm Bonita She didn’t want to hear about all the places we had sex and how I lost myself in the relationship because I fell in love

"Oh, " She laughed "Sorry for the twenty questions"

"That’s okay What about you? When did you last date?" I asked her, honestly wanting to know the answer but also wanting to take the focus of the conversation away froaveto watch?" She walked away from me and looked at some of the pictures Zane had up on the wall "These are cool"

"Yeah," I nodded "They were painted by kids with cancer"

"Oh, that’s sad"

"Cancer is a horrible disease" I agreed "Zane does everything he can to support cancer research He gives a lot of money to a lot of different hospitals" I paused "But honestly, I think the best part is that he goes and he visits the kids and he talks to them and plays with them, and he supports their visions for the future"

"Wow, that’s a"

"Yeah He’s pretty cool" I nodded and I felt warain realized how blessed I was to have hio upstairs?"

"Do you have any wine?" She laughed "Or chocolate?"

"I think we have both And strawberries, if you want some"

"That sounds delicious" She followed lasses and a box of Quality Street that I found in the cupboard Zane had an addiction to English chocolates and always ordered the boxes in bulk I grabbed a wine bottle, opener, and soe

"Okay, we’ll all set Let’s go feast" Robin followed oodies on the nightstand next to my bed "Feel free to take your shoes off and relax" I smiled at her as she just stood there She smiled back at me and slipped her shoes off and pulled off her sweater I stood there staring at her torso as she straightened her clothes, and I tried to avoid staring at her brsts as they beckoned toon the bed?" She gave ainst the headboard

"Yes, you look comfortable" I opened the bottle of wine and stared at her as she lay back

"It’s a co on a comfortable bed"

"Feel free to sleep in roaned as soon as I realized what I had said "And Ito hed self-consciously "You keep tellingwith me"

"Oh, don’t think that I’d love to sleep with you" I paused "I mean, when you’re ready When the time is ready I don’t need to sleep with you anytime soon"

"Okay" She patted the spot next to her on the bed "I appreciate it Nohere’s , aren’t we?" I laughed and handed her a glass before sitting down next to her and opening the box of chocolates "Here we go"

"Oh, I’ve never had these before Are they good?"

"Are they good? Is this a joke?" I looked at her ide eyes "Why, Quality Street are on the best chocolates in the world"

"In the world, eh?" She leaned towards hs touched

"Yes, the best in the world" I reached into the box and pulled out a pink wrapper "Try this one first, it’s ht layer of milk chocolate"

"Oh, my, that sounds divine"

"It is" I opened the wrapper and took a srinned as I chewed on the sweet in o" I lifted my hand to her mouth and fed her the other half of the chocolate She opened her ht as she enjoyed the sweet