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“I…” Indecision wavered in his hazel eyes

“You're hungry? Well, you ca her pen at the ready, she turned toward the other guy “What can I get you?”

After writing down their orders, Josie hurried back to the counter and cornered Arlene

“Can you take table fifteen for me?”

“Thought you needed the tips?”

“Yeah, well, I'd rather gnaw offtoe than take any money from him”

Arlene sum “Sure, I'll take 'em”

Anxious energy burned a hole through Josie's stomach as she marched past the order pick-up station and into the break roo thwack as she let it slaression

“I knew it I just knew soainst the opposite wall, his hands stuffed in his jeans pockets, an invisible aura of tightly wound energy filling the room

Relief seeped into her bones She'd really started to worry soone off All the eed to the surface and she couldn't repress the tearsWhat was the point in hiding them? Cy always knew

“Who is he? I have ti town”

At six-foot-five-inches tall, with each inch covered in muscle, her little brother could put the hurt on a ht a bazooka to a knife fight

“It's Snips”

HeWhat were you thinking?”

Men Of course that's where his brain went first