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Chapter

Nine

Tenley

O f course, when I retell how I’d come face to face with Paddy Dunne I miss out the personal bits, his flirtatiousness, and the effect he’d had on me. I definitely keep his offer of hooking up under wraps, because between you and me, if circumstances had been different, I might have actually taken him up on the promises of hot sex.

“Okay, so what happened next?” Smoke questions after I don’t offer anything further.

“What do you mean?” I reply, not sure what he’s getting at. “I finished my grocery shop and went home.”

“And when you met him after that?”

“It was only a few days ago,” I clarify. “I’ve not seen him since.”