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Another pause "Where’s Anne?"

"Galway" Brigid smiled at him over her shoulder "I’m not her only basket case, you know"

"Don’t talk about yourself that way"

"I’s seriously?"

His voice was sharp "Is that what you think?"

Brigid ss seriously when they need to be"

Her eyebrows raised as she examined him The look in his eyes was unfamiliar Raw Vulnerable, in a way "I know you do, Carwyn"

He blinked and looked away, then rose to come stand beside her "Can I help?"

"Why do men always offer to help when the job is alrabbed two plates "We’re s a woman see to your needs?"

Nohy did that id shoved back the other i to herto hell

Carwyn leaned over her shoulder and took a deep breath

"Srabbed the two sandwiches and put theid turned around and watched hi to the small table in the corner of the kitchen He set theet it"

Her eyes flicked to his neck a moment before she turned back to the counter to put away the plate of beef

"Whiskey," she said in a strangled voice "Please"

He didn’t respond, except to dart to the living roo into his sandith gusto

"When did you coo Went to Cardiff first, then Dublin"

Her ears perked up "Dublin?"

Carwyn nodded "Saw Murphy while I was there Angie says hello, by the way Sounds like you’re greatly missed"

A soft sie She had to confess she had been worried what the older woman’s reaction would be to her new iood friend"