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She seemed to calm suddenly “Okay then, how do you want to proceed?”

He studied her face He knew soed in her His senses never lied “Look Let’s eat Talk Rest, okay?”

CHAPTER SEVEN

Her brow furrowed “Youe felt sick He’d lied to her then tricked her Now, he seeotten herself into? She needed to get the hell out of here Her brain orking overti to plan how to do it But she’d better not let anything show He was too astute Too knowing in soe way

“I will tell you what I can?” Harris suddenly didn’t sound so sure

“What you can?”

He nodded “But until I knohy you were co to me, I have to be careful”

“Careful?”

He s whatever I say”

“This isn’t funny, Harris!”

He turned the stove on and placed the pan there

Abruptly, another thought occurred to her “Your name isn’t really Harris, is it?”

He paused slightly as he poured the eggs into the hot pan and stirred theone by So that wasn’t a lie”

“Rolling her eyes, she scoffed “A nao by? Like what? A nickname?”

He stirred the eggs and then took a spatula in hand to scrape the to have toast?”

Blinking her eyes hard, she couldn’t believe hoas acting like nothing was amiss Like he hadn’t just dropped several bombs just now She huffed and looked around

“It’s in the upper cabinet there, three to your right”

She moved over and checked the first cabinet

“Three over, Ridge, not one”

She was so upset she couldn’t think straight “And that!” she seethed

“What?” he asked as he e

“Callingthe toaster, she went over to it and stuck the pieces in, sla the handle down

“Easy on the poor toaster, okay? So what should I call you?” he asked as he brought out the silverware

She got the butter froht had never occurred to her to name herself when she didn’t even know her name

“See?” he concluded sotta have a name” He went over to the toaster “The butter please?”