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She shakes her head "No, I didn’t have tiot hoo"

I narrow o? Unless you ate in the et hoo to bed"

"Midnight? Late night partying?"

She givescare of you is my only job?"

Due to the extensive research Patrick Stevens did on her business, I’m well aware of how many other clients she has Not that I want her to know that So I hadn’t thought I was her only job but I had thought that once I hired her, she’d assign her previous work to sojob in the evenings Which ht? When do you sleep?"

"Sleep is optional at this ti ht up Then holds up a black thong with the tips of her gloved fingers "Are these yours?"

Oh hell I actually forgot I left those there for her to find Suddenly ht of ere just talking about But then I reton’s ar back She crushed uy who taunted uy who’d looked down on us both at one tirew up and he noticed how beautiful she was

So I shrug, as if finding so init’ll just piss her off

"Well, in that case I won’t bother saving the at her side and resuh the cushions She pulls out a condo as well There’s nodown the longer the silence stretches on

I feel the loss of the connection acutely For a s used to feel between us Easy Like we could talk about anything It’s the kind of thing you take for granted until it’s gone Until you spend years having unimportant conversations with people who don’t matter and remember what it was like to have so You know you getelse into the trash bag "I’m fine, Finn You don’t need to worry about me I’ I’et it out, the sound of the vacuuht have wanted to say

Rissa doesn’t look ain

"Hello? Finn, are you here?"