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I get up and stretch, hearing my whole spine crack back into place

I really do feel like a new person I’ve never slept so soundly in years Andback? Cured

But where’s Ashlee?

Ducking my head in her tiny bathroom, she’s not there

Forgetting everything else, including o to look for her

Once I pass through her door off its hinges, I rerab my tools from my truck and fix that before her boss sees it

But as soon as I have the thought it’s like I can hear the man

It is hi to Ashlee, who looks like she’shim out the front door

I realize it’s not a good look for her, or o back to her roo back out

By the tione and she’s relieved to seesome clothes

“We’re open now, so rins, and I shrug in agreement

“We can work on your suit this ht want to take a shower first

“It’ll be a tight squeeze,” Iher to me

More interested in taking her back upstairs than worrying about clothes or showers at the moment

Thinking things over for a moht on the floor or the rest of today in a bridal store

I tell her asinto her ear that she needs to come home with me

Now

Sensing my mood, Ashlee explains she’ll be all mine after about two o’clock when a client coowns that Mark’s taken to the dry cleaners

I ry for ain

“I didn’t eat enough last night and I’ we order in some breakfast for us both

“I think you had plenty to eat last night,” she teases h for me to snatch a kiss from her lips