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I had no answer to that

“I have a question for you”

His brows rose as he gestured with his head toward the door for me to ith him “What’s that?”

I got up and followed him outside

He caught the dog from the kennel, wrestled a muzzle on Al who tried to bite him the entire time, and then alked toward the path to the pool house

Just like last night

My face flahts

“I want to go out to dinner tonight,” I blurted “That’s my question Can we? Somewhere that has bread, and appetizers, and dessert, and really good sweet tea”

His lips twitched “I think I can probably make that happen”

My phone pinged, and I looked at it

The grin slipped off my face

“I have another question for you,” Ithe words on the screen

He looked over atback to the path ahead of us

“What’s the question?”

I grinned “Could you use your scariness to help me buy a truck sometime in the future? I need one”

“Um” He hesitated “What?”

• • •

LARIC

There were a lot of things I’d been expecting, but that? Nope

“Uhtly to the side “What?”

She gestured for me to take her phone, and I did, almost worried what I’d see on it now

I glanced at the screen and read the first few texts from an unknown number

“You Use your scariness To helpwith a salesman for the past four days now on a price of a truck, and I’ et it for at least another week He and my brother are on a motorcycle ride as of today that’ll take the guys I know are with theet it now Because there’s no way that it’ll stay”