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Sonancy, es”

I hiss at hie

I finish chewing the pickle in my mouth and then …

“No”

I take off running,for the restroom

I e to spot it at the front of the store and push a poor little old lady out of et there

I push open the swinging door and burst inside the bathroom

Thankfully, there’s an empty stall I make it just in time as the small amount of pickle I ate comes up I’d felt fine and nausea came out of nowhere—like it usually does

There’s notstops

I stand andsome water on my face

“Thea? Are you okay?” Xander pushes his way in the bathroo that it’s women only

“Get out,” I hiss “You’re not allowed in here”

“You’re my wife, dammit, and you just took off, and I had to make sure you were okay So people can just deal with it”

A woman comes out of one of the stalls, she’s a little older, probably in her fifties and she soes to wash her hands “My husband was just like that,” she tells et” She points toout

I turn back to the sink and splash water onbehind me, but he looks almost boyish the way he’s dressed and with the baseball cap