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Rafe re to keep it low-key”
Brooke dislass “He’s only nine once, Rafe I want it to be a party he’ll remember”
Rafe let it go at that Genny understood why Once Brooke had decided to do soue with her plan
Before dessert, Genny excused herself for a quick trip to the loo She used the half bath not all that far fro Room It was down a rather dim corridor She took care of business, washed her hands and primped her hair
When she pulled open the door, she alht And in a way, it was “Fiona, you surprised me” She wanted out of there, and fast “All yours, then” She dodged around the redhead
But Fiona caught her arm “Just a ht in her eyes nothing short of desperate
Genny’s stoain that he or she didn’t appreciate intense eht at the end of the hallway
But she didn’t She pulled it together, gently disengaged her arht What is it?”
Fiona put her hands together—and started wringing theht last week” Her mouth twisted, her misery obvious even in the darkness of the hallway She tried a laugh It came out a frenzied little screech “I’d had a lot to drink and I have no idea what I ht have said or done It’s all a complete blur to ht seriously II could have said anything Made up things, you know?”
Genny ought to let it go There was nothing antagonistic in Fiona’s attitude now On the contrary, she sees she’d said last Tuesday night would never cross her lips again But then, who could tell with Fiona? “Which things, exactly, are you talking about?”
More hand wringing “Well, II told you, I don’t really know—because I can’t re in on you like that It was so rude and disgusting of me”
“Then you do re to my room?”
“I Yes I do I remember you letI woke up in the over and I had no idea how I—”
“Gen?” Rafe stood down at the far end of the hallway, his broad forht?”
“Oh!” Fiona cried “Rafe, hello there Everything is fine, fine” She flashed Genny a huge, ghastly smile “Well, wonderful, then Wonderful” She whirled, darted into the powder room behind her and quickly shut the door
Genny went to Rafe
He looked her over as though checking her for injuries “After you left the table, she juht back I didn’t like the look in her eyes”