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Jesse shut the door with his foot and followed his old friend to duerator door and began shoving the bags’ contents into the nearly ee

“Just as we suspected, you’re living on road trip food” Mac reached around Jesse to hold up a turkey sandwich Jesse had gotten frohway “Not fit for human consumption”

“Works fine by rocery store and all of the good citizens of New Springs

“Good to see you,before he could say tords “It’s really good to see you” Mac thumped him on the back, which hurt but, for so He stood rip of Mac’s arms Emotion leaped in him

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“It’s good to see you, too,” he finally ht across the shoulders and then pushed away

They both laughed aardly and Mac held Jesse out at arth It had been three years since they’d seen each other at his mother’s funeral and Jesse had kept his distance that day

The es ti, thick across the chest and through the ariven him wrinkles and creases at the corners of his mouth and eyes But his smile was still quick and his eyes sharper than ever

“You look old,” Jesse joked

“You look like roadkill,” Mac shot back and Jesse felt as though he were soaking up the warmth of the sun

“I see you’ve made yourself at home” Mac pointed at the broken front

Stupidly, excuses came to Jesse’s lips but he stopped hi to anyone Not to Rachel and not to Mac

Even though he did owe Mac a lot

“Well—” he grinned like the old troublemaker he’d been “—she did leave the house to me”

Mac laughed and scratched at the day-old whiskers on his face “Man, you know, that’s what I always reot into trouble and I had to go down to the police station, you’d be sitting in lockup with this sly grin on your face like everything was going according to plan”