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“Oh, dear,” Aret “What a shame”

I fought back a laugh “Why don’t you take Mabel inside? Me and Seb can get these You know, in case one of you falls and pops out a hip or so”

“Good idea Maybe a Xanax for Mabel, too” Aument, finally convinced her to join him inside to watch their show

A Xanax would work

“That wo as she left with his grandpa

“M down to pick up one of the coats

There were holes for the duck’s wings

This was… crossing a line into really, really strange

“Holley”

“What?” I jerked upright and turned to look at Seb

“I asked if you were okay You ignoredabout a book?”

“M the coat in half as I irl’s fake boyfriend kisses her and instead of kissing hi hiain”

His smirk didn’t disappear “What did you expect reet you”

“A hug? A kiss on the cheek if you really had to? Why did you need to kiss me properly?”

“Holley, if you think that was kissing you properly, you’ve dated some real jerks”

“I don’t date,” I said without thinking

“You don’t date?”

Damn it

“Not often” I paused “I have a business to run Besides, Saylor dates enough for the both of us Not very successfully, but she dates”

“Huh”

“What? It’s not that surprising Besides, it’s not like I’m forty I have time to date later” I picked up another coat and added it to my little pile

“Thenyou really shouldn’t be that much of an issue, should it?”

“Well, it was”

“I can’t wait for this Why are you really mad?”

“Well, you did it without ree to it, and—”

“You had no control over it”

“Excusecontrol over who kisses me”