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Instead, I was plotting where to hide his body

There were plenty of places just over the bridge in Jersey where they could make it happen

I grabbedto work Not eat We’ll finish this up on the way there and then I’ to the office exit, I took a cal my hurried strides Not hard to do when he was a solid half-a-foot taller than me

He held the door open “Have it your way Difficult as usual”

“I’o over the menus”

“We don’t need menus where we can’t pronounce half of what’s on there”

I jabbed the elevator button “I didn’t have any trouble reading any of it”

The elevator dinged and he stepped in front of the doors, letting me pass

Once out on the street, he looked around at the lights with a big sht air and going for a walk?”

Things were cooling off in the evenings, although the afternoons were still warh to break out into a sweat

I scrunched up my nose like someone had sht skies really get ? Was your coffeefilled with bourbon? We have a deadline”

His eyebrows dipped “How’d you know I drank bourbon?”

I shrugged “You seeuy”

Leo tugged his collar up and, considerately, never took off down the sidewalk like I’d have tried to do ifas his

“The lunch menu, Leo If we decide, I can finalize it and we move onto dinner”