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Places like "this" I can’t help but chuckle She looks like a little doll, perched prim and proper in the middle of this kip Completely out of her element I’m sure the only bars she’s heard about are the upscale ones in Tee the tourists’ wallets "I guess you’ll have to stay and see, won’t you?"
A sparkle of exciteaze drifting overand set the pint in front of her I lean across the bar, resting on my elbows "Do you trust me?" I ask, half in jest
She bites the inside of her cheek and then nods
Concern pricks my conscience Yes, I may have dove in front of a bomb for her, but, really, she should be a bit more wary of me Yet it’s that trust, that admiration that radiates frohter by the second,the printer that keeps churning with orders "Go on, thenTry it This one’s on me"
A small bloom of red touches her cheeks and I wonder what that’s about, as she brings the glass to her lips to takes the tiniest sip A caramel frothWhen she catches hten even ht?"
She nods, swiping at the foahts flicker across her face "How did you know?"
"Because Guinness doesn’t travel well Everyone says it’s better when poured at hoaze on me, her voice low and suddenly so serious "That’s not what I meant"
In the blink of an eye, we’re back to the Green I still don’t knohat to say, so I peel away frorab a few orders to stall The bar’s filling up quick Soon I’ll have custo either side of us and this conversation won’t be able to continue I could drag it out, let her walk out of here without any answers at all I could let her form her own conclusions
Likely they’d be bad
Maybe they’d be right
"I was jogging in the park," I finally say "I saw a guy drop it in the grass before you ca"
"I didn’t see anyone else" Her pretty brow pinches in thought "Then again, I didn’t see you either I guess I was oing to go off when it did?"
"I didn’t," I lie "I saw it and I saw you, and I ran as fast as I could" My gaze drifts over that crea neck, those slender ar plastic?
"But ouldn’t you stay and tell the police? Thegardai" She tests that word out on her tongue with a cute scowl
Selrab napkins andthe conversation I wait until she’s gone to lean over the bar again, this tih to catch the smell of spear back to rass The terror that stoppedI wouldn’trelief I felt when I knew she’d be okay