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“Full-time?”

“That’s what it sounds like” She beags are starting to crack open”

“Interesting analogy”

Moood in here Have you eaten?”

“I just threw some chicken and potatoes in the oven There’s some left Want me to make you a plate?”

She relaxes back in the chair and swirls her wine around in her glass Seconds tick by, and she doesn’t speak Instead, she watches rin

“I’ to take that as a no,” I say and sit down inweird, I pour myself a little more wine

“Coy called me today,” she says out of nowhere “He said the doctor told Bellamy that the baby will be here any day now”

I don’t knohat hs

“What?” I ask

She shakes her head “It’s a boy, you know It’s not going to be another Rosie to chase you around”

“God took pity on me”

Mo me over the rim in a way that makes me anxious

“Did you come here for a reason?” I ask

“Do I need a reason to visit my son?”

“No, but you have four others to choose from I try to et chosen”

She sets her wine down and laughs “Wade, you are not unpleasant”

“Then so lost in translation”

Though I fight it, we exchange a grin She knows I don’t mind her visits

She giveswhatever has sparked her arrival on my lap It’s appreciated

My h the work I left unfinished on n issue on the Greyshell project that’s challenging me, and Dara Alden

I shift in my seat

That wo—and I’m not sold on why

Sure, her bubbliness was a little much The fact that she remembered our ridiculous speech was also suspect, and her penchant for pushingBut it doesn’t add up None of those qualities are things that I haven’t experienced before her