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you’re a bit of a dork.”
    He stopped, knife and fork in his steak, eyes blinking. “A dork? You think so?”
    Oh, damn. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to say it like that…”
    “No. No, really, it’s fine. I’ve just, well, never been called a dork before.”
    She bit her lip and waited for him to say something more, like how he wanted her to go back to her own table or jump in a lake or go play in traffic or something. Something to show just how much he didn’t want her to be around anymore. Suddenly she felt really embarrassed for stealing a fry, that was too forward, and she hardly knew this guy. The fact that she felt so comfortable around him made it hard to keep herself in check.
    “Don’t misunderstand me,” he said instead. “I like it.”
    “You what now?”
    “I like it. See, where I’m from, people don’t talk honestly to me. They talk around me, or over me, or say what they think I want to hear, but they never just talk to me. Ever. So to hear you call me a dork because you mean it? That’s like music to my ears.”
    That was just about the weirdest thing she’d ever heard a guy say. And yet he said it with such honesty that she could tell he meant it. “I can honestly say you’re not like most guys I’ve ever known.”
    “And a bit of a dork?”
    “Yes,” she said, making her expression as serious as she could, “you’re a dork.”
    He burst out laughing, head tipping back. The other people in the room looked over, some smiling, before they turned back to their own dinners.
    She couldn’t help but smile when she was around him. “So,” she asked, “where exactly do you come from that people can’t even talk to you? Or call you a dork when you really are being one?”
    He still smiled at her, but now it was kind of sad. “Somewhere a long way off from here. I’m kind of running away from there, actually.”
    “Wait. You’re running away? From home? You’re a grown man, aren’t you? You’re, what? Five, six years older than I am?”
    He leaned his head to one side briefly, considering how to answer. “Older than you. How about we leave it at that.”
    “Well, I’m twenty. So if you’re older, then…”
    “I’m older,” he repeated.
    She blinked, then let her fork drop into the salad bowl. “Oh no. You can’t just leave it at that. Like, are you thirty? Fifty-five and just aged well? What?
    He cleared his throat. “My life is…complicated.” Then he shook his head and his smile was back. “Tell you what. Anything you want to ask, I’ll tell you all about it on the car ride, if you let me go with you. How’s that? Deal?”
    Complicated never looked so good before, in her experience. She stole another fry from him before giving him an answer, grinning inwardly to herself.
    “Deal.”
    They raised their drink glasses and clinked them together. She guessed she wouldn’t be alone going back to New York after all.

Chapter 4
    “So can I walk you back to your hotel?”
    Dinner had been better than she had hoped, and not just because the food was delicious. After his steak and her salad she had let Jake talk her into desert; a piece of rich chocolate cake. It was to die for.
    Now they stood outside the restaurant, talking. It was finally starting to get dark, the sun having touched and dipped behind the horizon of trees and rooftops while they ate, and now he was offering to walk her back to her hotel.
    “Um, thank you, but I’m pretty sure I can find my way back there by myself. Kind of just down the street. As cities go, this isn’t a very big place.”
    “Yeah, that’s true. But you can’t blame them for trying. Seen the Green Giant statue yet?”
    “The what now?”
    Jake laughed at the expression on her face. “I’m serious. Over there a ways off Route 169. Sixty-foot-tall statue of the Jolly Green Giant. Looks just like him.”
    “And you would know because you and the Green Giant are such good friends?”
    “Well I don’t like to