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“Come on I’ll take you to the nearest—”

“Why did you follow me?” The words spilled from her lips She wanted to call them back, but it was too late

“I didn’t”

“Of course you did Do you think I’m stupid?”

“I think,” he said gently, “you have a very active iination”

“How did you end up on this road, right behind my car? You followed me, and I want to know the reason”

“How could I have followed you? You’re heading for Vegas I was heading away from it”

“Oh,” she said She caught her botto increasingly familiar to him “Oh…”

“Yeah” He grinned “Well, that’s okay I get a lot of that”

“A lot of what?” she said A delicate furrow appeared between her eyebrows

“Of wo I followed them when the both of us knoith all due modesty, that it’s they who followed me”

Dawn stood up straight “I did not follow…” She saw hi me”

“Uh-huh”

She drew a deep breath, then let it out slowly between her slightly parted lips A loose tendril of hair lifted on her forehead

“I guess I owe you an apology”