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“Mom! Did you hear me?” Evie demanded.
JJ lifted her chin from her hands. “Evie, I think everyone in the restaurant heard you.”
Otto smiled at JJ sympathetically. He’d met her at the diner with the girls so she could have breakfast with them before school. Of course, they’d made those plans before JJ had spent the night being interrogated and napping on the break room couch. One of the deputies had given her a ride to the grocery store to get her car this morning, and she’d driven straight to the diner. Thank God for strong deodorant and the bottomless cup of coffee. Still, she supposed if Otto could sit in a booth designed for a man half his size and pretend to be interested listening to their girls prattle on about Phys Ed class, she could too.
“Sorry, sweetie. If it makes you fee
