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“We’ve talked about this, Anna,” I said, opening the door and letting her inside “You’re supposed to call and ask me if you can come up here first”

“I’ent” She scoffed and held up her phone “I called several tiame Since you didn’t answer, I orried” She looked around the roo?”

“No” I groaned “What do you want?”

“I wanted to personally congratulate you on winning your second Super Bowl” She handed ht pink envelope “I’m so proud of you, that I actually wrote inside of this card”

“You caive me a card?”

"Of course not" She smiled and pulled a s I need you to sign, and a few tiotiate"

“That sounds like it can wait until next week”

“It could, but what if one of us dies before next week? What if you hurt your throwing arht and this weekend and suddenly, you realize that no one wants to endorse an injured athlete?”

I gave her a blank stare This woman was the most anxious person I’d everher job, but her anxiety , so she never took a day off She used the word “ti at her, that none of what she had to say to me today was that crucial

“You’ve got twentymy entire day on paperwork”

“Fair enough” She carried her envelope toroom, turned on the fireplace, and hit mute on the television like this was her house Then she slipped off her heels and plopped onto azines on my coffee table

“Would youme a cup of coffee, Grayson?” she asked “I’m thirsty”

Okay Now, you’ve got five minutes

I filled two of s with coffee and took a seat across fro myself for bullshit

“Let’s start with the siossip blogs caught a picture of you dining with a o I kno annoyed you get about your privacy, so if you want to kill the speculation, would you like to confirirlfriend or tell the?”

“I would like to tell the my mother to a private dinner It was her birthday”