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"I’ll be right back," she said, sood here?"

"Everything," Zack replied with a grin "We’ve got the best chef in the state I’m told the lobster is excellent"

"You’re told?" Her eyebroent up in surprise "Haven’t you ever tried it?"

"No I’ a glass of dark red wine, which she placed on a coaster in front of Zack before turning her attention to Kaitlyn "Do you need more time?"

"No I’ll have the lobster"

"Soup or salad?"

"Salad, with ranch"

"And to drink?"

"Just water, no le?"

"No I dined earlier"

After jotting Kaitlyn’s order down on her pad, the waitress picked up thesmile on Zack

"She seems quite smitten with you," Kaitlyn remarked as the waitress ood kid" He draped one arirl?"

"Not yet I just graduated frorunted softly

"I majored in Comparative Folklore"

"How’s that workin’ out for ya?" he asked, grinning

"Not very well, actually," she ad his "Believe it or not, there isn’t a lot of interest in ancient folklore these days, but"--she shrugged--"I receive a substantial allowance from my father"

Zack nodded "Must be nice" He barely reuilty for taking it, and for knowing that if I do get into financial trouble, he’s there to bailwith that? Isn’t that what fathers are for?"

"I guess so, but I’h to stand onon an allowance"

"What does your father do?"

"He’s in business in Romania" It was the truth And a lie

"Ro way from home"

Kaitlyn nodded "I alanted to see America I have an uncle here soht be He left home before I was born" Her father was still hopeful that Stefan would one day return to the Fortress, but she thought it unlikely Stefan had been gone for over twenty years Surely, if he intended to return, he would have done so by now Then again,ti to be hard to find him if you don’t knohere to start," Zack re for hih it’s kind of nice to know that I have family here, somewhere" All she knew about Stefan was that he looked a lot like her father and that he had once loved a randht Kaitlyn’s dinner a few lass of wine for Zack