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“You bought it? Just to drive around while you’re here?”

“I bought a house here, too,” he replies, putting the car in first and taking off down the street “Going to take you there now and cook dinner for you”

I just blink, trying to process that type of wealth I’ve never experienced it up close I h to buy extra houses and Porsches on a whim

“Unless you’d prefer not to go tomy lack of response as hesitation

“Can you cook?” I ask

“I’m not bad,” he admits

I shrug “Then let’s go to your house”

We make small talk as he maneuvers the sports car like a dreahborhood with houses the likes of which I’ve never seen, pulling into the driveway of a beheood fifteen-thousand-square-feet or more

When he brings the car to a stop in the circular driveway, I gape at the grandeur of it, whistling low “As sooods up close and personal, I know da you are… u”

Do at my door “Get out of the car, smart-ass It was on sale”

“Oh, a multimillion-dollar house was on sale? How can you pass that up?” I roll my eyes

He doesn’t reply, and we exit the vehicle As I close the door, I let n of cream stucco with a red-tile roof—and s

The house he bought to live in just during hos

“You kno ?” Ibeside me

If I thought it would offend hi his hand on uide me up the front portico “I donate plenty to care for children of all sorts My conscience isn’t troubled in the slightest”