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Stunned, Julia took the white envelope in her gloved hand “Thanks,” she murmured

“Next e’re sending soo? We pay”

Julia blinked at both the irony and the offer

“Of course,” she stareat”

Virginia nodded “If Doug doesn’t shape up here, you’ll get pro off to deliver the checks to the rest of the employees

Pro a week

All the other guys were taking their checks and finishing up Julia checked her watch and hustled into action It was still a long walk to Jesse’s house and A on her

She rolled up her hose, punched out and grabbed her uneaten lunch from her cubby in the staff rooain

She said goodbye to Sue and the other cashiers and walked through the parking lot to the bike path that led into town She fished an apple out of the bag Yesterday Jesse had told her that she asting away

Of course, what they’d been doing at the ti of that man, and his hands and his wicked mouth

Jesse burned slow, all night, as though he couldn’t get enough of her He watched her, tortured her, stole her breath in ways she’d never thought were possible

She dodged a pack of kids on bikes and put her apple core back in her bag

But there wason between thereith each beautiful ether Every e Powerful, intis such as how he liked his coffee and what he looked like asleep on the couch

He talked back to the news on his radio in the garage