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"I’ht I can slip you an invitation"

So he waited on people for a living, too "Won’t that jeopardize your job?"

He shrugged "I’ anyway"

Still, so Jessie stood and said, "Well, thanks anyway, but I don’t have anything to wear"

"What if I can get you so?"

She cocked her head to the side, baffled "How?"

"You wouldn’t believe the things people leave behind in high-end hotels I found this watch once, cost about two thousand dollars Souy just left it on the counter in the bathrooet it back to him?"

"It was in the lobby bathroom We left it in the lost and found for months, but no one claimed it"

"So you took it"

"No, I wore it a couple of ti woowns at the hotel?"

"All the ti on her It wasn’t as if she’d find a rich husband, or boyfriend for thattables at Denny’s

"I don’t know…"

Jack stood and stepped close to her He was a good four inches taller than she was, and Jessie wasn’t exactly short

"What are you, a size eight, ten?"

"Eight, not that it’s any of your--"

"Business," he finished for her "I know" His white teeth flashed in a grin "Shoe size?"

She was still stuck on giving out her dress size to a stranger At nearly five eight, being a size eight was perfect Still, saying it aloud left a bad taste behind her tongue

"Well?"

"What was the question?"

"Shoe size?"

"They leave shoes, too?"

"Sometimes"