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Heather broke off How did one explain Alexis Morgan?

“Co you don’t like her?”

“No, I love her!” Heather said, scooping up a handful of the sliced berries and dropping them into the bowl “I mean, yeah, she’s my boss, but she’s become a friend, too When I say she’s complicated, I just mean moreI sometimes think that I don’t know her I’m not sure that anybody does”

“Amushrooles and lip gloss”

“You bashing your fellow kind, 4C?” he asked

“Absolutely not, 4A I’ve been known to giggle and rock the lip glossyou”

He nodded “Sure, sure Gotta keep up your walls, I get it”

“Oh, I’m not the one alls,” she said confidently as she opened the container of blueberries and went to the sink to rinse them

To Heather’s surprise, Josh came back with neither a defensive remark nor a quip Instead he kept his focus on his i to provide a buffer frohts had caused a little line to form between his eyebrows Heather bit her lip as she studied his profile, torn between the urge to dig a little and the desire to respect his privacy

She’d hardly spilled her guts to hih she could fairly expect hiot to know him, the more she wanted to really know him

Because she suspected Josh was just as much as a mystery as Alexis He just was a hell of a lot better at hiding it than Heather’s reticent boss

They fell into companionable silence as she finished up the fruit salad, and he set out the rest of the ingredients for the eggs It wouldn’t be quiche, but as far as scrah-class variety Mixed rated Swiss cheese