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He heaves out a breath, shoving his phone back into his inner suit jacket pocket, and shoots me a smile

“Trouble at the office?”

He shakes his head on smirk “Naw That’s everyday bullshit” He comes back over to the sink, wets a clean cloth under the faucet, andthe sticky chocolate and syrupy mess from her cheeks while she protests in German

“How about you?” Roan takes Linnie’s last bite and puts it into her open o into business with your super-secret family pancake recipe?”

I s rove It’s just a step above a coe, but I have a half scholarship It keeps me busy, I have to keep my GPA up or I’ll lose it”

“So, are you all work and no play?”

“Just like you,” Linnie says, looking my way “Alice said that to you You’re all work and no play”

I giggle on a quick shrug “Yeah It’s been h-school”

“Half-scholarship? Do you work too?”

A flash of heat nearly melts me from the inside and before I can think of what to say, I lie “No I had soh for next year”

“We’ll see,” Roan replies, and I give him a quizzical look as Linnie clirabs my hands

“Let’s go swi today”

“He did? Well, then can he come with us?”

Linnie screws up her face, but then breaks into a smile

“He never comes Renata always takes me, he watches so”

“Okay, well, let’s go upstairs and get changed I don’t have a suit with h…”

“It’s okay You can wear one of Mos still on She wouldn’t mind”

Roan gives s ed

Linnie pulls er than the house where I grew up

“What’s your favorite color?” she chirps as she leads s open the doors, exposing a hanging bar full of adult-size bathing suits, and just below on another bar, child-sizesuits

“Yellow,” I answer and she beams