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She laughs. “I didn’t have three questions. I know we’ll talk about this later; you just need time with it.” She shrugs and opens the tab on her takeout coffee cup.
“Alannah?” I query.
Her eyes bounce to me.
“Did you not drop off breakfast to his place?”
She frowns.
What the fuck?
“He made me scrambled eggs.”
“Okay…”
“And rye toast.”
“Hm.”
“He had a jar of raspberry jam in his fridge.”
Her eyebrows go up.
I add, “Seedless raspberry jam.”
Her mouth forms into a letter O.
“And nothing else other than a fruit plate from the grocery store and the stuff for coffee along with some… like… random condiments. So I figured you got my text and dropped breakfast groceries at the door in the morning while I was still asleep or something and either you must have told him I’ll only eat eggs scrambled or he took a lucky guess. But the marble rye toast? The seedless jam? I figured that had to come from you.”
“No,” she whispers.
We stare at one another for a solid five seconds.
“You know much about him?” I ask.
“No. I do know he’s from one of the richest families in the state.”
“Can you look into this guy for me?” I ask softly.
“I’ll do that, hon.”
She looks freaked. And this tells me I have reasons to feel a little freaked, too.
Because how the fuck would Derek Steele know what sort of jam I like, what sort of toast I like? Who told him? Why would he go to that much trouble? And again, why tell me he knew things? His words before he left me crying in his laundry room ring in my mind.
“You deserve more than what he’s giving you.”
“I wanted to give you more. Give you everything you deserve.”
“I want more of it, Chloe. No, little bunny, I want all of it. All of it.”
“You agreed to make all my fantasies come true, Chloe. That’s what you’re gonna do.”
“Alannah…” I whisper and meet her gaze. “I think I’ve stirred up some sort of hornet’s nest here. He said some things that were a little…” I wince.
“Concerning?” she asks.
I nod.
