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“So are you and he…?” Dan asked almost an hour later as he and Tonya walked out onto the porch.
Tonya looked at Dan with a shocked expression. “Who—Ashure and me? No, no, it is nothing like that. I hardly know him. He’s more of a friend of a friend, really. He just—dropped in unexpectedly last night and needed a place to crash. I suspect he’ll be leaving later today. He’s a very busy guy and all,” she hurriedly said.
“Oh, that’s good,” Dan commented.
He turned on the first step and fingered his hat before he placed it on his head. It was an awkward exchange that Tonya was really trying to ignore. Between Ashure’s snide innuendos throughout breakfast and Dan’s constant pressing for more information, she was ready for a stiff drink and it wasn’t even nine o’clock in the morning yet.
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