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Though he’d known ‘soh that he felt like I would be safe with hi Bruno out

Lynn sighed “So I take it you’re not going to Belle’s place, either?”

My heart skipped a beat at that announcement

Bruno’s eyesto mine”

“Yours as in the one that nobody from this club has been to, that I haven’t been to, that one of your best friend’s hasn’t even been to?” Lynn asked carefully

There was a pause and then Bruno said, very carefully, “Yes”

Then he hung up, shoved the phone into his pocket, and then gestured at et started

I looked at him blankly

“I don’t knohat you’re expecting me to do,” I admitted “I don’t have the keys to this car”

He pulled so out of his pocket, a set of keys, and then unlocked it

“Lifted it froes off earlier,” he murmured “We’ll drive to the nearest car lot and leave it there From there, we’ll buy a new one and head out”

Buy a new one

What?

But that was exactly what he meant

It took us ten et there, fifteen to buy the car—Bruno was very persuasive—and five to get the keys before ere heading out in a brand-new, 2021 Chevy truck under my name