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I sed “What? Why?”

“She’s common,” he informed me and my head jutted back with not-so-mild affront

“So? So am I”

“You are not”

“I so a at cider and I choked at this news I ed not to spew it across the table at him and instead s it but ht ofroyalty in this world, well, I couldn’t help it

I lost it

Totally

I threw hedon,” I choked between giggles,it repeatedly

“Cora”

“Just a minute”

“Did you not understand me before?”

That sobered me My mirth died away buttears frohter ceased as I caught the look on his face

He was not pissed, annoyed, irritated or i atat me like a movie star would stare at his movie co-star when he saw her for the first ti that would mean he’d soon become lovestruck But Tor did it better because he was hotter by far than anyacross a table froh,” he told me quietly

“I do it often,” I replied quietly

“You should do ita jerk, I would,” I returned

“That orth not being a… jerk,” he said the last word cautiously, like he was testing it out

I liked that so sled all over and I felt eous

He lifted his spoonful of stew and asked before putting it in his ?”

“My Dad’s an Earl”

He chewed, sed and grinned “That’s a shifted on his face, like a shutter closing but not completely “A hippie?”

“A love child A child of mother earth He’s kind of a loon He’s liberal Like, way liberal He sets down to Grateful Dead albums He wears tie-dye, kid you not, to this day and he’s fifty-five years old”

“Sweets, you know I only understood half of those words but I didn’t understand the rinned at him, leaned my elbow on the table so I was closer to him and took a bite of bread After I chewed, I sed but in that time, I hadn’t co enough to make a like comparison”

That shutter closed further, he looked to his stew and ht”

“Tor?” I called, he took a spoonful of stew and looked atokay?” I went on

He sed then without hesitation he cut ht out from under me, I landed flat on my back, winded and wounded