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"I visited the store the other day" The words didn’t carry as strongly as I intended over the clatter of the restaurant, but he’d heardas if it was the courteous thing to do

"It was a mess," I continued "Micah cauess other business owners have co off track "Did you have to bust my door down? Did you have a sudden fear of door knobs?"

"The next tier I’ll be sure to follow protocol," he said sarcastically His sarcasm didn’t bother me as much as it used to, Especially if it was always followed by that sexy ass grin

"Soe happened when I was there"

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah," I responded "I saw--"

"Here we go," Marie said, sitting our drinks down "Your food will be right up"

"Thank you, Marie" Dorian smiled and a fresh blush colored Marie’s pale skin She cut her eyes toover another girl’s boyfriend I didn’t have the heart to tell her Dorian and I weren’t an iteht, and Marie would be crushed It was better they never interacted outside of the restaurant

When Marie walked away, I took a big drink ofup, I restedup and down nervously

"You were saying…"

"I reuess they could be real We deal with ghosts all the ti around what I wanted to say was pointless I just needed to spit it out and hope he told ht it was clear what I did," he responded "I saved your life, again"

"But…I was a ghost I saw it, saw you…suck e If I was just watching Dorian, daydreas I would like to do with hiht about all the things I had seen him do, that fantasy collapsed He wasn’t just otherworldly, he was unlike anything I had ever seen before

"I did what I had to," he said tersely

"Was I supposed to die?" I whispered I waited, watching him speculate internally on how much he wanted to tellour glasses The other patron’s searched for the colared at theht to know"

"It’s not the time for this conversation," he snapped We were locked in each other’s stares when Marie popped back up She sat our plates down in front of us, but still we didn’t break each other’s gazes I could see lasses

"Uh…Is there anything else I can get for you?"

"No, thank you," Dorian said and Marie sca eye contact to pick up his fork and stir his pasta I shook er How could I sit across fro was hunky-dory?