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me up. I struggled to open my eyes and tap

ime, I threw back the c

ngeles had already started to get

drobe. As I was putting on my panties

her, Maeve Parritt. She alw

voice was husky, cuz

, the do

oria?" Woody Todd shoute

manners?" I came fully awake out of alarm

he clothes hid my body, his gaze

Woody shrugged a

w you to come in.

aid, "Hurry up an

closed the d

nd of Elaine Shorte

ently staying at Wood

is month that Woody barged into

e did this,

alant, as if I was making

hat Woody didn't come back. Then I

on my skirt, the d

d. But when I saw the pers

Maeve looked at

y and said, "Sorry, Mom.

d me away and raged, "Deloria, we gott

nything. He just told me to make breakfast. Even if we ca

t is. I think the police do, to

uth. "I just didn't

holic. A few years ago, she married Woody. S

was already a great help for Elaine to let me

t the police

an apartm

re with a meager income, and the rent in Los Angeles was so high

llege classmate, Jonathan Holt, used to pursue you. If you had a

't like Jonathan," I immedia

meone who loves you." Maeve gave me a

ly, I remembered that it was a bit cold today. So I turned arou

Maeve's desk and fi

opened it and found

ord "cancer", my

cer? Why didn'

ged your clothes?" Maeve's v

d it back on the table in a flurry. Then I

w the report, I calmly made breakfast for the o

piece of toast and

tightly around me. Thinking of that pat

why Maeve had been urg

'd find someone who

ion. I couldn't let Maeve keep

and called my other

sweet voice came from the other end o

ed to set me up with a man suitable for

you saying you agree to m

ed. "I wanna