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“I’ll get Thoet home and keep that hand up”

“I’m so sorry,” she whispered “I’ve let you down” It was like a pot boiling inside her sto loose all her worries and insecurities

“What are you talking about? How could you have let me down?”

It was nice of him to try to pretend it wasn’t true But she kneas

“You heard the doctor I can’t work for at least a couple of days I’m sure after that it will be fine But the restaurant is opening soon and Renard wants me to make a strawberry-le to have to practice ain And I—”

“Quiet”

“Don’t kno I’e that in such a short time—”

“Aspen Be Quiet”

The low menace in his voice made her freeze He pulled up outside his house then cli with her own belt when he opened her door and, reaching in, undid it easily before pulling her out and into his arms

“I can walk,” she protested

“I believe I gave you an order”

That was an order? She thought it over Yeah, it had been She subsided into silence Truth was, she didn’t feelherself up to enter into an argument with him

He carried her into his house She stared up at hih, just walked with her into a living area Unlike theroom at the front of the house, this one was se TV affixed to the wall, and wooden, built-in shelves on either side of the TV It felt ho you it was this one

He laid her down on the couch then pointed at her “Stay there”

“But Sax—”