#Chapter 29: Is it a Date?

It was dark when Charles stood up from his desk and stretched.

"I think that's a day, Elena," he said, his voice not exactly weary, but ready to be done solving problems. "That Panang beef you ordered was delicious."

"Good," I said, clearing up the last to-go boxes from his coffee table.

I checked my phone. There was

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