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Her sigh sounded happy. “That was the best meal of my life.”

“Glad you liked it.”

“When you go on dates, do you take them to fancy places like that?”

Honestly, I couldn’t remember the last time I had taken a woman on a proper date. Hook-ups from nightclubs were more my style. “Not really.”

Her eyes glittered in the dim light. “You should. That’d really impress them.”

You’re the only one I want to impress.“You think?”

“Definitely.”

“I don’t date.”

She frowned. “Why not?”

I took in a big breath. “I’m not that good at it.”

“You could turn that around if you included that restaurant in your dating repertoire.”

It was cute she thought that restaurant was fancy, which made me want to take her out to a high-end restaurant. I wanted to buy her a meal that cost an arm and a leg so I could watch the staff treat her like a queen. We passed by a small grocery store. I grabbed her arm. “Come on. I need chocolate.”

We stood in front of the chocolate bar section. “What do you want?”

Her silence made me glance down at her. She stared at the back of the store with huge eyes.

“Zoey?”

“Let’s go.”

“Don’t you want chocolate?”

She put up her hood and ducked her head. “I’ll wait outside.”

I looked around the store. Zoey was already halfway to the door. I caught up to her. “Hey, you okay?”

She hunched in her pink coat, her eyes cast down on the ground. “We need to go.”

“Okay.”

She began to speed walk. I looked behind, but no one followed us. “You okay?”

“Yeah.”

“See a ghost?”

She shook her head. “It’s fine.”

But she glanced behind us four times while we made our way back to the apartment. Fear etched every movement of her body, but she wouldn’t tell me why.

When we got back to the apartment, she asked me twice if I had set the alarm before she disappeared into her bedroom.

CHAPTER 20

ZOEY

I droppedmy hands onto my face and leaned against my closed bedroom door. Tears squeezed out of my eyes.

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