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Before he could get out another word she took off down the hallway at a pace et her away from him as quickly as possible

Watching her go, Jack scratched his head

Seeing Taylor again hadn’t gone anywhere close to any of the dozens of different scenarios he’d iined over the past month

“Hope you don’t mind, but I invited company for dinner”

Even before Auessed who she meant and wanted to throw her cellphone across the room

No No No

She needed to tell A and just be done with it so her friend would let up

“I knew you had bought stuff last night toyummy for dinner,” Areat cook you are”

Gripping her phone tighter, Taylor winced

Oh, A?

“My cooking skills are ed your mind about the invite before I poison the poor man”

“But I haven’t changed my mind,” Amy insisted “I’m almost home Orive you a heads-up so you could look your best”

“You knoas looking forward to a night with just you andto put on ed outfit and toss flour everywhere”

“We’ll have plenty of tih “And just remember, you make the mess, you have to clean it up”