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Zoe worried her lip as she ran her fingers over Mr Cuddle’s head After a few o I cara a ht to one of the owner’s wives"

When he didn’t say anything she continued "I told my supervisor, who told everyone else so the owner actually heard the ru He was angry to say the least, but I didn’t think he was ," Trevor ain wondering why the hell she was talking to hiht, because she had absolutely no one else in the world to talk to and she was probably on the verge of a nervous breakdown

"So, what are you going to do now?" he asked

"I thought you were going to leave me alone if I told you"

"I lied"

She sighed "I have absolutely no idea what I’ to do now"

When he didn’t say anything for a long tih it was nice to talk to someone, she couldn’t help but feel relieved She didn’t want to sit around talking or thinking about how she was going to fix her screwed up life There was plenty of tiht now she wanted to pull on her favorite Red Sox tee shirt and go to bed and forget this mess, at least for a little while

"Look, there’s this job in the office at my uncle’s construction co the silence "I can’t guarantee you’d get it, but they’re pretty desperate for soood and so are the benefits If you’re interested, you could swing by in the ood word in for you"

She couldn’t help but feel a little touched "Why would you do that? You don’t even knowloudly, "you could use the work, my uncle needs the help, and you don’t piss me off as much asslightly less touched

"And as a thank you for hooking you up with a job you’ll of course return the favor by ordering pizza from Black Jack’s at least once a week forquite pleased with himself

She couldn’t help but roll her eyes at that little announceot the better of her "How exactly do you get banned froe me! Those bastards had it out for me!"

Chapter 4

"Aw fk," Trevor rab his packed lunch only to reo to the store last night "Da the coffee truck today, he thought unhappily They never stocked it with enough food He grabbed his tool belt and hardhat and headed for the door, already in a pissyHis only hope was that his cousins and uncles bagged their lunch so that he would have a chance at getting a decent lunch today He hated co with those bastards for food, especially his uncle asn’t above kicking everyone’s ass for a damn cupcake

It was really kind of pathetic, he thought even as his sto the idea of a dozen or so cupcakes for breakfast Perhaps he’d stop by Mary Lou’s on the way to work and pick so to be quiet and not wake up his little tenant It was kind of funny how after last night he was ht he honestly hadn’t given it ht He quietly closed the front door behind him and scooped up her newspaper so he could look at the picture highlights fro he’d be more considerate in small steps

Halfway to his truck he paused and frowned as he watched so into Zoe’s car

"What the hell do you think you’re doing?" he de towards the jackass The man noticeably started as he stood up He took one look at Trevor and dropped the ar and took off at a dead run

"Don’t let ain, assle!" Trevor called after hio after the piece of shit and knock some sense into him

He walked back to his truck and threw his shit in and sla when he realized how loud it was and hoping he hadn’t woke her up since he had a pretty good idea that she’d stayed up

There was a lother job and he had no interest in finding out about any of it It was bad enough that he actually asked about her work drama, and that had only been because he’d felt bad about what he said He didn’t want or need to find out about any of the other shit

He walked over to her car and cringed as he picked up her CD’s What kind of sick bastard listened to Phil Collins? God, this woht, he mused as he collected her CD cases and tossed them in her car A dark frown crossed his features as he took in the soaked driver’s seat and open

What in the hell was she thinking leaving the n last night? he wondered as he looked at his watch He really didn’t have time for this, but he couldn’t just leave her car here, knowing that bastard would coroan he walked back to the house and let himself inside and knocked on her door He was just about to run up to his bedrooh the hen her door opened