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was just about to join the room when someone knocked on her front door She stopped dead, but before she could turn around, Sawyer moved the cat to the spot on the couch next to hi to the door

By the time Chloe realized he had ordered dinner for them, he’d paid the deliveryman and taken the Chinese food into the srabbed two plates froe, while Sawyer opened the small white boxes

Once they’d filled their plates, Chloe led the way back to the living roolass of Coke and her plate on the coffee table

Amusement richened Sawyer’s voice “You eat on the floor?”

“University habit, especially when it comes to Chinese”

“If you say so” He chuckled and sat on the couch, placing his plate in front of him on the coffee table

Crossing her legs, Chloe dug in, her sto at the smell of spicy noodles and sweet-and-sour chicken Sawyer ry, too, since they ate in complete silence

It wasn’t until Chloe reached for her Coke that Sawyer addressed her “So tell ot to this point?” He scooped up soetables

Chloe finished off awith flavor “I’d wait That’s all we can do The police haven’t gottensoon that we can use But it’s been a long day, so I say we get a good night’s rest and start again tomorroith fresh eyes”

Saatched her a long moment while he chewed his food, then nodded “Sounds like a plan”

“Just like that?” Chloe retorted “You have no opinion on the matter?”

He shrugged “You’re the expert on hunting people, not o after someone, I already knohere they are I don’t hunt people I capture the this your way”

That one statement seeuy, and a confident one at that Most ht their as always the right way But Sawyer never treated her as though her ideas didn’t matter, the way sos that ant, but he didn’t need to make her feel small to be that way

She s on her dinner Many er the comfortable silence settled in, the more she realized that Sawyer’s silence wasn’t as comfortable as hers was In fact, he see that his thoughts were off in the distance She sipped her Coke, then asked, “Still thinking about Travis?”

“Nope” Sawyer grabbed an egg roll off his plate and devoured half of it in a single chomp