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"No"

Atlas looked up at the tone of her voice, and moved to put his head on her lap as if to cohed, knowing that if Zach had been that persistent about getting her to have dinner with hi to leave this one alone without getting her to eventually tell him what he wanted to know

And maybe it would help him understand her reluctance to date him if he knew more

"Everyone loves ood salesperson, that people can’t help but be char what?"

"Used to be chemicals Now it’s cell phone towers all over the country"

"How much time did he spend on the road when you lived at hoot to be hard on a kid"

She liked how heabout someone else "My one so ouldn’t have ti hiot one" Presents she’d wanted to smash into a zillion little pieces when she’d found out the truth

"Did it work?"

She aze "No" She reached down to stroke Atlas’s head as if to steel herself for as co next "But it orse when I found out he’d been cheating on e, actually"

Zach cursed "That sucks"

"You want to knoas even worse than that?" She couldn’t wait for hi over each other to get out of her mouth "She knew about it" Heather pushed her plate away "All those years, even now, she knows he’s cheating on her, but she stays with him anyway"

She’d never told aone in enough to speak about fao she’d be spilling her guts to the cocky man ned the auto shop, she never would have believed it

"Why do you think she stays?"

It was the question she’d asked herself a thousand times over the years "He always h we all know it’s a big fat lie"