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He told her he’d be ho up While Gabrielle stood at the orried by her earlier jealousy at the thought of hi out with someone else

This had to stop

CHAPTER TEN

“THE GATE OUT in front of your father’s house was splattered with eggs this ,” Gabrielle told hi He’d just set the table with plates and silverware The cartons of Chinese weren’t even opened yet

“I’ he called the police” He’d shed his suit coat, and now loosened his tie and undid the top button of his shirt

Setting her briefcase on the chair that Marie had used the night before, she started dishing up their dinner “He’s hired a security firm to watch the place twenty-four-seven and a member of that firm called it in”

“He’s got security ca to find the culprit” Liam came from the kitchen with iced tea

“They’ve already got the guy”

“Any chance he confessed to spray painting ot it back today, by the way, had it delivered to the courthouse, and it looks good as new” He waited for her to sit and then joined her

“No, he says he didn’t spray paint your car His beef is clearly with your father He’s twelve and lives down the street and says that his dad gave your dad a lot of ot your car back”

She was eating only little nibbles fro him He assumed that whatever it as in the briefcase And based on her seeood

He didn’t call her on it, though Dinner was good Eating it alone with her wasnice Just having her there lad that Marie wasn’t with theht then, he didn’t want to spoil the moment

GABI WASN’T SURE how to tell him After dinner, for sure No reason to spoil his appetite as well as her own And then, before the table was even cleared, Marie called

Sam, one of her full-time employees, had called her just as she and Burton had been sitting down to a preshow dinner

Sometime in the past hour, someone had left an envelope for Liam on the counter at the coffee shop Sam had found it in the far corner, with a napkin holder half on top of it Marie was on her way back to the shop