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She held her breath She hadn’t lied to hie forever

Again

That had to be why she’d been so emotional over hioing to split at the seaether for him

“Will do,” he said, sounding so much like his old chipper self that she alht as his old self Her neould be the sa

Except that he’d be back in court then And she had a full day of hearings ahead of her on Tuesday

“I feel like Chinese,” he said, and she could tell by his breathing that he was taking the stairs out of the courthouse rather than the elevator

A du followed

If Tanner was a good guy, he’d be in that stairwell, too

“I planned to stop on the way home You and Marie want some?”

“Marie has a date tonight,” she told him “Burton”

A safe, couy who liked the theater as much as she did Someone hom she’d never fall in love Or need to trust with her heart Which, sadly, fit Marie, who trusted no man but Liam, and not even him when it came to women

“How about you? You feel like Chinese?”

She didn’t feel like food at all Or being alone with hiht “Sure The usual”

She’d said the words before More tiht they sounded intiht Marie wasn’t included And when she found out that Gabrielle had had dinner alone with Liaain

But aside from her bizarre reactions to Liae in Gabrielle’s relationship with Liaht she had news that she had to tell hie