Chapter

486

"Ms. Kay, you're here! I thought you weren't coming," Ron said, striding in with a bag just as I was checking

if breakfast had somehow disappeared into thin air.

"Ta-da! Breakfast!" he announced.

At that moment, it clicked.

Breakfast had arrived all right-just not the one Wayne sent.

I gave Ron a look, waiting. He didn't usually bring me breakfast without some kind of reason.

Sure enough, as he set the food down, he said, "I got called in at five this morning, and I was starving, so I, uh, ate the breakfast on your desk. This one's a replacement." Oh, please. Like I was buying that.

But I was too tired to start anything. "You didn't have to replace it. I already ate."

Total lie. I hadn't eaten at all; I'd barely had an appetite the past few days. And when I did eat, I just felt queasy.

isn't

"Custom-made, huh? Guess I'll see.

container: shrimp bisque, garlic toast, and my go-to side

knew exactly who'd

It looks good, smells good, and it's all the nutrition you need!" Ron said, already

"Eh, doesn't look that appetizing. Not

this is all your favorite

locking eyes with him. "How do you even know what

stammered, 1-1 heard you mention it. You told me, like, in one

the worst cover ever. I knew Hayden had sent him to deliver this, even though we were over. And the fact

Hayden's face and demand an answer. But I held back. If he wanted a reaction, he'd get the

used to like it doesn't mean I still do. People change. You can stop liking someone halfway through life-why not breakfast?" I pushed the container

do you want to eat? Just

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he was under orders to make

potato cakes," I said, throwing out something totally random that Macy used to

lost.

potato cakes weren't exactly popular in Seavora,

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