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"Is this the wo toexpression that all the younger men in his family wore until the Bradford curse hit them and knocked them on their asses

"Only one way to find out," Jared said, already heading for the door, more than curious about his future niece

Chapter 8

"No, I’ll definitely be in to that only see minute

"Do you want roup?" Jenna, a volunteer as covering for her at the library, asked as Jodi shifted the phone to her other ear so that she could bend down and take a peek in the oven toevenly

"We should have everything but the glitter Dan is supposed to drop that off along with the glue to Besides," she said, pausing to shut off the oven ti out the hot cookie sheets fro on the kitchen table, "we’re shutting the library down for the su that we already have so that we don’t have to worry about finding a place to store it"

"That’s what I figured," Jenna said, as Jodi carefully placed the hot pans on the counter to cool

"Could you please tell Mr Jennings that I’ain thankful that she had a job that allowed her to work from home when needed, and today she definitely needed to work from hoo to the hospital and have these frightening hives or boils or whatever they were looked at, but at the ot any worse she wasn’t going to have o down to the walk-in clinic and agree to a payment plan that she couldn’t afford, which of course was the reason why she’d been cooking ever since the jerk across the hallway had dropped her off, she mused as she looked around the kitchen overrun with cakes, brownies, cookies, breads, and casseroles

Her refrigerator was already overfloith food and she had absolutely no idea what she was going to do with all of it She’d tried calling the guys, hoping they’d coe reason none of the their phones She’d briefly considered packing all the food in the car and bringing it down to the police station, but she’d quickly dismissed that idea She really wasn’t in the ue

"He already knows and he said that was fine I hope you feel better, Jodi"

"Thank you, Jenna I’ll see you to up the phone and conteain, she wasn’t so sure Trying to ignore the mindless need to itch every last square inch of her body, she picked up her spatula and began the task of re the cookies when there was a knock at the front door

Sighing with relief, and hoping that she could talk whoever it was at the door into running to the pharmacy and buy her some calamine lotion, she quickly headed to the door and opened it, only to frown in confusion when she azes of two incredibly handso a little lost while the older uely faely down at her

"Tinkerbelle?" the younger lare up at hiive him a piece of her mind when both men tilted their heads, sniffed the air and, she was pretty sure, groaned in ecstasy

"God, soer man said with a wistful smile that may have distracted her fro soer man that she couldn’t quite interpret

"No," she said, shaking her head as she crossed her ar "I just felt like cooking"