She Paid a Stranded Biker’s Gas, and Three Days Later Everything Changed

necessary.”

“I felt it was.”

Miss Edna, passing behind them, said out of nowhere, “He’s grown on me like ivy on brick.”

Jake turned.

“Is that good?”

“It depends whether you keep behaving.”

He nodded solemnly.

“Fair.”

Later, when dusk had settled and the string lights were doing their quiet magic over the yard, Alicia slipped away to the gate for a moment.

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