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“Oh my God, what happened now? I just heard about how you chased down the killer Margret Goodwin said she saw Chris carry you back to the restaurant Are you okay?” Beth accentuated her words with a loud slurp of her ever-present coffee

“I kissed him”

“You kissed the Voice of Doom?” Beth’s voice went up three octaves

“No, I did not kiss him! I kissed Jake Well…ed Onion off the couch “Not a lot ht there on the kitchen counter I can’t

seem to control myself around him”

She bent and picked up a few stray dog hairs froray cushions Onion shed fur everywhere and it see hair in her office at Harvest, where he’d never been, carried in on so

“You really like hiuy who makes her melt”

“I don’t knohat you’re talking about”

“Oh, coh There’s nothing wrong with having the hots for Mr Tall, Dark and Studly”

“Very funny I don’t live like a nun, I just work a lot Anyway, it won’t work out because we hate him”

“We do, huh?”

“Yep”

“More information, please”

Claire harrumphed and plopped down on the couch, still warm from Onion “At Harvest, he questioned me like I was a criminal”

“So he did his job as a private investigator?”