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Chapter 5.1

“Astronomical, I’d say.”

“Yeah,” Wade agreed. “Hey, listen, we should both get back to work. If you’ll point me to the office.”

“Sure. Down the hall, right across from the main entrance.” “Thanks.” Wade started past the man, then paused. “We should get

together for a beer sometime.” Then he thought better of it. “Or…not.” Carlucci nodded. “Yeah. Maybe not.”

The fireman went back to his mopping while the CEO went looking for a ten-year-old.

A young woman behind the counter in the school’s office looked up Ben’s classroom and gave Wade directions. He got the book to Ben and made it back to the diner, having been gone under thirty minutes total.

“Thank you, Wade,” Dixie told him.

“You’re welcome.” And my, he thought, how polite they’d become with each other. Polite and distant. All because he’d been unable to keep his hands and his mouth, to himself.

“Dixie,” he said softly as she turned to leave. She paused, turned her head toward him. “Yes?” “Did I ruin things?”

She frowned “Ruin what?
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