Otherwise we would have come.”“And Zoey?” he said. Penelope smiled.“Zoey has a new boyfriend and it looks serious. They went up to the river f...r the weekend,” she said.“Okay, I understand. I’ll be leaving. Have a good day,” he said.“Lance what... ?”“None of you or the Longstreets showed at the do. He is, well, heartbroken. It was a big deal. I hope you remember what he looked like. You’ve likely seen the last of him for sure,” he said, and he rose and walked out.“Lance... !” But he was. Like so much of her "womanly logic" she was so proud of, she didn't think things through. She neglected to tell me she was going to use my shower. Rather than wake me a couple of minutes early and tell me she needed to use my shower, she got her things ready and commandeered my bathroom.It was like she told me later that day, "I just wanted you to get your sleep in. You looked so cute on your back with your mouth open to catch stray bugs I hated to wake you."Anyway, my alarm went off, I got out. "But I don't see anything." Exactly," Mack said excitedly. "In fact, what are we not seeing in this mall right now?"Darren, frowning, panned the surprisingly small numbers of people coming and going. A couple of guys here, an older man there ... wait."Where are the women?" she observed correctly. "I don't see a single woman."Glad to see your half-a-brain is working the oft-beleaguered cameraman thought. But Darren was already moving forward, speed-dialing Jackie at the station."Darren? Aimee!. Simple, straightforward. Sexy. He discovered they were her own design. Really her own, not just something she pasted her name on. ‘Here’s what it is,’ he told her, passing the menu across the table. ‘I am not even going to pretend to be careful of your routine, to make sure you are in training and getting plenty of sleep. I’m warning you now, so you can get full use out of me, because your game is going to suffer. But I’m making a bet with you, and myself, that we can pass through this well.
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