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"How do you know?" I asked stiffly, and even I wasn’t sure if I was asking how he knehat it was like with Peter, or how he knew that this time would be different

"I just do" Then he bu "You know that I know I don’t knohy you always have to argue"

"It’s just in uess"

"What’s that?" Jack noticed the Cosmo on my lap, and before I could stop hily, I had left it open to the quiz I had been taking "Whatin bed? And question four, you really do that?" He gave , and I tried to take the azine back from him, but he irl, Alice! I es rab it frohed freely at my humiliation, and I just shook my head "Ha ha Very funny"

"Yeah, it kind of is," Jack said when his laughter died down He leaned back and spread out his arms on the back of the chairs, so one of his arh, that I know exactly what kind of girl you are"

"Oh yeah?" I asked, intrigued "And what kind of girl is that?"

"Oh, you’ll see," Jack smiled at his cryptic answer

"You say stuff like that just to drive hed, confir my suspicions

Jack waited with me until all the laundry finished To pass the tih I refused to answer any about sex) and a crossword puzzle in the newspaper, which he was a at He had to be the sood job of keeping it secret

When the laundry was done, he carried all three s out to his Jeep He offered to take theht it would be better for Milo if he didn’t see hier they ithout contact

Before I went into the building, he re me up to the evening with his family

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Jane had always been h clothes in my closet It actually wasn’t the amount of clothes so much as the fact that they were all terrible I’d even done laundry, so everything I oas clean and neatly folded or hanging up, but none of it was good enough I ed

"I know, I know," I answered the phone breathlessly

"I just wanted to make sure you didn’t chicken out," Jack said Fortunately, he sounded "

"I’ll be out in a minute" I flipped my phone shut and rushed over to the mirror to inspect myself Milo, who had been my wardrobe supervisor, sat onto sound offhand