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The waitress handed him what felt more like a pile of laminated lead "Take your tilanced from Daphne, as beautiful in a ain

Zoe let out an exaggerated sigh "You can go now, Daph"

"Are you sure he's just the social worker?" She leaned down, giving hie

"I'm sure he's just the social worker" Zoe shook her head and laughed "Daphne loves to snoop into her cousins' lives because she doesn't have a love life of her own"

"Aha! So you admit he's more than a social worker"

Zoe turned beet red "I ad"

"You just did by the color in your cheeks"

Ryan had never been around this kind of fas over easy and white toast with butter," he said hoping to distract Daphne from the more personal issues

"Tsk-tsk, cholesterol heaven I'll tell Dad to , healthy life" She snatched his menu "You'll have the usual, Zoe?"

She nodded and Daphne finally left them alone

"So what's the usual?" he asked

"Old-fashioned French toast"

"What makes it old-fashioned?"

She raised her eyebrows, obviously surprised "Old-fashioned is lanced over his shoulder in ti kitchen doors, then turned back to Zoe "So what do you do for a living?" he asked now that he was certain Cousin Daphne had disappeared

Zoe leaned both elbows on the table and edged forward "So what iven her more info rmation about himself than she'd reciprocated, yet this sudden question took her by surprise

He shrugged "I' me act the social worker role in front of your family I mean look how easily you just lied to Daphne"

She narrowed her gaze "So?"

"So lying comes easily to you I read about your family's cons I've seen the old newspaper articles The 'Alien Twins Invade New Jersey ' photograph in The National Enquirer— "

"Hey just because e— "

"A nored it into a national spectacle"

Zoe rolled her eyes and laughed at the memory "'All the news that's fit to print'"