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"Food is fro to the pizza box on the stove

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"It is," he agreed

"Your restaurant is still open?

"No," he said, shaking his head

"You dragged an employee out of bed to make us food?" I asked And as a former food service worker, I was deeply offended by the audacity there

"Don't worry, babe," he said, shaking his head "I pay hi a couple hours of sleep Come over here and eat You lo

ok pale," he told arlic knots, and so out a foil container, popping off the plastic top to reveal a salad with tomatoes, bread, onions, olives, and spinach He can do better, but this was fast," Lucky added, grabbing a paper plate his chef had packed as well, piling a slice of pizza, a garlic knot, and so it toa hand over to the card table in the dining room

I was too hungry to object,a thank you when he handedoff to the table