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He glared at the freshly cleaned floor mat, pissed that woo back outside and stomp around in the dirt just so he could cover those freaky looking puppies again, but he was too damn tired at the moment to try Tomorrow, he promised himself as he walked into his apartment and froze

It was

Clean

Not only was it clean, but it s was vacuumed, the furniture polished, dirty clothes, and food wrappers were gone It looked daave hireat plan He walked into his kitchen and nearly ith joy when he spotted the empty sinks and counters She’d even put away the dishes

He spotted a note on his counter with a siven her two hundred and fifty dollars to fill his kitchen up with food and she’d only spent a hundred of fifty of that He’d have to tell her to spend it all next ti multiple trips to the store every week for hie door and felt his e was completely packed with food He moved onto the freezer and cabinets and couldn’t believe that she’d ht with less money

Zoe rocked, he decided as he returned to the fridge and pulled out items to make a sandwich After he scarfed down three sandwiches and half a bag of chips he headed upstairs and took a shower He was just about to head downstairs for that ice creaht he heardthe walls reinsulated, he decided

"Zoe?"

"Yeah?"

He looked around his clean roo the freshly made bed, laundry basket full of folded clean clothes and felt like he should say so you did today," he said aardly, feeling pretty damn stupid

She chuckled "You’re welco track of e you hazard pay after I saw your bathrooed at that It had been pretty bad and if she was anything more than a tenant and now an employee he’d be pretty embarrassed, but she wasn’t So it didn’t really

"Let ot and I’ll pay you on Friday," he said, already dis for the bedroo him pause at the door

"What’s so funny?" he asked out of curiosity In the past two months that she lived here he couldn’t reh

"Huh? Oh, just so relaxed, which he guessed was nice and of course because of hienerosity

"What are you reading?"

"Twilight"

Why did that sound familiar? It took him a minute before it came to him "Is that the vampire series they s about the books and keptto buy the mp3 file so he could listen to it, but he never found the ti it for the fifth tiued Thatover to his bed and laying back, resting his ar expectantly for her to read to hihed heavily "You can borrow it after I’estion It would take him years to read a book and he just didn’t have the time or patience for that

"I won’t have ti it now so it just makes more sense to save time and read it out loud, don’t you think?" he said, slipping into old habits He’d never had a proble for him was actually to their benefit

So he wasn’t too surprised when she said, "Fine," sounding totally put out, but that really didn’t bother hi as she did what he wanted

"You’ll start fro when she let out a surprisingly cute little growl

"Fine," she snapped

"There’s lots of sex in this book, right?"