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“Okay, well, how ‘bout I corab a bite to eat and head over afterwards”

“Can I meet you? I…I’m not home”

“Where are you?”

I couldn’t tell him I was at Dr Carr’s office My weekly sessions were coe If I told him I’d come in for an additional session, he’d ask why, and I didn’t want to get into that

“Just out running errands Where do you want to meet?”

“Flying Biscuit on Piedmont”

After hanging up, I took a few steady breaths before heading out to meet him

Chapter 3

Malcolm

I sat inlot behind the restaurant while I waited on Ginger Turning up the radio, I restedalong to Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty to Me” A fewonface She stepped back as I opened the door

“Having a dance party?”

“Nope Practicing up for ive her a quick kiss on the cheek

“Well, don’t quit your day job just yet,” she replied, s down the back of her hair

I reached out to touch one of the shortened strands I remembered the shock I’d had the first time I saw her after she’d hacked it all off The cut she wore now looked cute on her, but I liked it longer

“Are you ever going to let it grow out?”