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“Okay, so that’s weird” She turned her attention to her breakfast They ate in silence, and Darryl took the opportunity to eat his two uess I should probably thank you for taking care of ht”
He glanced sideways, exaet three sheets to the wind?”
She held his gaze firmly “Why did you and your wife break up?”
Hishih—it’d been ten years and he had no business asking anything personal But he had nothing to hide, not a da the fall after you and I shared that intense kiss” He liked the way her cheeks heated at the reotten hoeet she tasted that night “We e By the time our twenty-fifth birthdays rolled around, ere two different people By our twenty-seventh birthdays, we had become two of the very best friends By twenty-nine, Natalie fell in love with someone else, and by thirty, ere divorced”
Penelope shut her parted lips, then eventually said, “Wow Look at you just putting everything out there like that”
“It is what it is,” he replied with a shrug “Besides, I’ about everyone This town is full of gossipers, and I have no doubt your cousins are a them”
She regarded him intently as she took another nibble of her muffin “Well, of course, I knew you were divorced, but Maisie didn’t say what happened” She rubbed her fingers together over the plate, dusting off the uess fair is fair To answer your question, no, I don’t always drink like that, but me and Christmas have problems”
“What kind of problems?”
“The ry shoppers All of it”
At that, he cracked a sht”
She winced “Yeah, let’s pretend that didn’t happen”
His set that And neither will the people who videoed you on their cell phones”
“Great” She let out a long heavy sigh, dropping her head back onto the couch “Video evidence is the worst kind of evidence”
“Not in my line of work, it’s not”
She gave a little nod of agreement