irs and arranged the dog on her lap. &#8220;Everything&#8217;s settled,&#8221; she said, as if she&#8217;d just secured a dinner reservation.</p>
<p class="excerpttext">&#8220;Your daughter didn&#8217;t seem pleased to have me here.&#8221;</p>
<p class="excerpttext">&#8220;She isn&#8217;t, but she&#8217;ll get over it.&#8221; She hadn&#8217;t really been looking at him before, but she focused on him now with a wide-eyed, innocent expression that didn&#8217;t fool him. &#8220;What?&#8221;</p>
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