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“Why didn’t you tell her no?”

“When has anyone ever taken no for an answer from me?”

I squeezed the steering wheel and tried not to let her clipped tone, or the iet to me

“Right I’ll text you Brenda’s number Talk to you later”

“Malcolm, wait Sorry…I didn’t mean…” Her words died out “If you aren’t busy, do you want to come by later?”

More rustling sounds, and I listened to her tell Shawn he couldn’t have the phone, which was followed by hi Loudly at first, but it started to fade away as if one of them walked away from the other

“How is he today?”

“Busy like always I’m sure he’d like to see you”

“Is he the only one?”

Her delayed reply was an answer in itself

“No I’d like to see you too”

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah Come by, and I’ll do as my mother said and feed you”

Her answer brought a smile to my face and eased sos to do, so I’ll call you later about a time”

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