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“No, I’, but I’m not on vacation any to be o with the flow Seriously, add holistic e to the list of your allowable expenses You seem to need it” He watched her face as she appeared to consider his suggestion There were dark circles under her eyes; she could probably do with sos hadn’t been too easy for her “What’s your favorite restaurant?”
“The Loft is, but—”
“Great I’ll take you there and buy you anything you want I feel like celebrating”
She smiled nervously and then the tension in her face seemed to melt At last “Okay, the Loft for lunch, then I’ll have the rib eye steak with shrinon they have”
“Cabernet, hmmm?”
“Merlot is so passé”
“Do you want some nuts with that?”
“Olives, the iarlic by nuns”
He picked up his jacket and slid it back on “In that case, I’ll have the biggest lobster in town With ht you could live on peanuts and potato chips, Mr DeLeo”
“I can And beer It’s nutritious In fact, I’ a diet based on it Write a book, develop an app, n some ultra-cool ic thing is that I can see you actually doing that”
Chapter Three
Piper’s cheeks tingled as the cold air outside the brewery office building hit her full on Matt DeLeo was no more than a foot behind her—she could feel his heat in the cool Colorado air, she would swear to it
“Which way fro?”
“Why not?” His voice was deep and calm, such a contrast to how she felt “We can be there in about five et us a car”
She turned to face him “I can walk five o”
“I’ve never been there, but if it’s your favorite, that’s good enough for et there becausereally bad noises soon”
Piper wanted to say she was scared her buddies would spot her, that the bartender would be indiscreet, and that her best haunt was about to be sullied forever She hadn’t thought about that when she’d blurted out that the Loft was her favorite place “Okay, but don’t eular”
“Noould I do that?”
The way he said that made her even more fearful She couldn’t trust him after he’d threatened to put her panties up behind the bar of the Railway Tavern, could she? She made a snap decision to lie for everyone’s benefit “And to be honest, I’ve heard the chef’s not so hot on seafood”