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Po about her, but he sure was quick to think the worst Battered pride steeled her spine Let him think she'd slept with him only for so hiet about everything else and on instead of the sculleryup everyone else's ht now

The elevator doors she'd been leaning against opened and Josie tu on her ass

Saht”

“Maybe, but you're forgetting one thing” Josie couldn't contain the evil grin tightening her cheeks

“What's that?”

“You're buck-ass naked and your room key is locked in your room”

His face turned scarlet and he cupped his large package in his equally big hands

“See you never, shithead” The elevator doors slid shut and Josie stayed on the floor during the descent, nursing her wounded pride and an unfamiliar ache in her heart

Chapter Four

Josie gagged on the stench of bacon grease heavy in the air at The Lucky Seven Diner Head aching from a lack of sleep, she rubbed her scratchy eyes and dry-sed a pair of chalky aspirin tablets What a way to start the second half of a double shift

A quick glance at herself in the full-length mirror on the back of the employee break room door showed off red-rimmed eyes and violet crescents below It looked as if she'd spent half the night crying—which she hadn't A third of the night…maybe

“Josie, three just sat down at table fifteen It's yours” Arlene's voice, muffled by the closed door, bounced around her cranium like a pinball

Tih her pain-in-the-ass little brother still hadn't returned any of her ency nuruff voice took thethe next time he saw Cy, but he didn't say when that would be

Why did everything have to go to shit at once?

She grabbed her order pad, stuffed a few pens in her apron and shuffled out of the break room The early bird crowd filled most of the booths If the seniors were here in force, that boded well for the drunk and disorderly customers who'd stuood luck