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s” She looked up at me “That’s the difference between your career and ours Yours is by education and training In many ways, it is in your own hands But, like you said, for us, it all rides on whether or not we are popular We can go to school and train too, but if, at the end of the day, no one buys anything… It was scary at first for , and he looks at you like you created a miracle…it’s worth the risk”

There was silence between us for a while and I re Hoas a ether, and with her hands, she had created one on her own

A smile spread across my face when I heard her soft snore

Rolling her over onto her back, she then shifted onto her side, facing me

Behind her, I saw the time and realized we had talked for another hour She was just so easy to listen to and speak with

“What are you doing toI was pretty sure I was going to dreaer part of my life

Chapter Sixteen

Troublemakers

Eli

I held Taigi’s leash as alked back to the apartment Guinevere had to rush to meet a paint supplier since we’d both overslept, so I offered to take Taigi out I could only get in a thirty-minute run, but I wasn’t bothered; I felt more than worked out, anyway Before we could turn the corner, Taigi stopped, sitting his gray ass on the sidewalk

“Co on his leash

When he got up, he tried to walk in the other direction

Kneeling in front of hiood run too to work”

He barked, trying to walk back again

“Taigi,” I said like I was talking to a naughty child