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have a taste,” and Andy looked away as his phone rang.
    “ Excuse me, I gotta get this,” he said, pushed back from the table and walked outside.
    “ Perfect timing,” he said when he answered.
    “ The she-wolf?” Marco laughed.
    “ She-devil would be more like it. Damn, Marco, I wish you were here,” he chuckled.
    “ I’ll be back at noon tomorrow. Pick me up at the airport?”
    “ It will be a relief to have you back. I’ll be there. You up for a couple hours with Adaleigh?”
    “ If it will give you relief, sure, tell her to meet me there by two, that way we can have a bite of lunch before I go. I’ll see you at noon.”
    Andy hung up and his phone rang again. “Hello, beautiful,” he said, and immediately heard Carlee crying. “What is it, sweetheart?”
    “ Can you come get me, please? Please, Papa?”
    “ Carlee, what is it?”
    “ Please…”
    “ Let me talk to your dad, Carlee, your dad,” he repeated.
    She hung up and he dialed John ’s number. “What’s up?”
    “ She’s mad because I have a guest. Go ahead and come get her,” he said in an ‘I don’t care’ manner.
    He hurried back into the restaurant. “I gotta go. Something’s wrong.” He pulled his wallet out and put money on the table. “Marco will be back tomorrow. He’d like you to meet him at the studio around two. I gotta go.”
    She stood up abruptly and sent the chair flying backward. “Are you kidding me?” she shouted. “You’re just leaving me here?”
    “ Bring your voice down a notch. I said I gotta go, this isn’t a date Adaleigh,” he reminded her. “I gotta go.”
    “ You son of a…”
    He whipped around and quietly said, “Say it and we’re done.”
     
    ~ ~ ~
     
    He knocked on the door and Carlee opened it immediately. She’d been watching for him and handed him her backpack. “I want to talk to your dad first,” he told her. “John,” he called out.
    He came around the corner, “What is it?”
    “ Everything OK?”
    “ Perfect, I told you she’s mad because I have a guest.”
    “ We’ll call you in the morning,” he said and took Carlee’s hand.
    She got in the car and Andy closed the door, walked around and put her bag behind his seat. When he got in she was sitting with her arms folded across her chest, crying again.
    “ Want to talk?” he asked.
    “ No.”
    “ OK, your call. Thanks for calling, you saved me.”
    “ What?” she asked.
    “ Marco had to go to Texas, he’ll be back tomorrow, and you weren’t with me so Adaleigh asked me to have dinner with her. Not fun,” he said sarcastically.
    Carlee giggled and turned in the seat. “Was she mad?”
    “ PO’d!” he replied. “Major PO’d!”
    “ Good,” she said and a few minutes passed as they drove. Finally, she said, “He brought her from Atlanta, for the whole weekend; Mimi, what kind of name is that?”
    “ Kinda like Adaleigh, what kinda of name is that?” he laughed.
    “ A made-up name that she thinks is cool,” Carlee replied matter-of-factly.
    “ I agree. So, did you like Mimi and you’re just pissed because you had to share your dad?”
    “ I don’t care about Mimi, I’m mad at my dad. He asked you to trade for this weekend, and then I have to share him. I’m just mad. Pissed,” she said.
    “ Hey…”
    “ You said it first,” and suddenly she started to giggle. “I’d rather be with you anyway. Let’s just go home.”
    He made a call to Angel and she arrived soon after they did.
     
    ~ ~ ~
     
    The next morning An gel had the morning news on the TV while Andy was drinking his coffee. The sound of his name made him look.
    “ We have exclusive phone video from last night of our local celebrity, Andy Stevens, and his date, new talent Adaleigh Pensant, at The Bistro. Looks like trouble in paradise,” the reporter said as Angel turned it off.
    “ For Pete’s sake, ‘paradise’,” Andy mumbled, and his phone rang. “Yeah,” he said, seeing it was Kimmy.
    “ Nice,” she said