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Chapter 27

“But…”

“I thought you were perfect the first time I saw you. You were helping a woman whose face looked like a dried apple and who was as tall as your waist. You were explaining how the humane rattrap worked, and she was staring up at you with stars in her eyes, as if you’d created the universe. The thought that popped into my head was that for the first time in my life I was seeing a real, genuine, honest person. Someone I not only could trust with my life but with Henry’s too. I felt like I’d stumbled onto the missing half of my heart. The first time I saw you was cataclysmic, and it scared the hell out of me. I didn’t know what to do, so I ran away.”

His gaze fell to the table. I was too shocked to speak. I remembered when he’d come into the store the first time too. But he appeared to be just another tourist as far as I was concerned. I was too busy explaining how the rattrap wouldn’t harm either the rat or her cat, if he accidentally got caught in it.