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15

Jeonghan

With my arms full, I gave the door two light kicks and waited.

It opened seconds later and everything in me went warm when I saw her. Mina wore leggings in a dark red. Her sweater was a fleecy ivory that stopped an inch above the waist of her pants. A wide black headband held her hair back. She was barefoot.

"Evening," I said, strolling across the threshold and dropping a kiss on her cheek. Pip followed me in and made a beeline for the couch.

"Well, hello. Uh, what's all this?" she asked, closing the door behind me.

I ducked into the kitchen and dumped the bags on the counter. "Dinner," I said.

She appeared in the doorway. "That doesn't look like the Thai takeout I was going to order."

"Not only beautiful but smart." I plucked the wildflowers out of one of the grocery totes. "Vase?"

She gestured at the bare countertops. "Do I look like I have a vase lying around?"

"We'll make do." I started opening cabinet doors until I found an ugly plastic pitcher. I filled it with water, then shredded the plastic around the flowers. "Wildflowers because they reminded me of you," I explained. And because the lily of the valley reminded me of my mom.

Mina shot me one of those complicated woman looks before giving in and burying her face in the flowers.

"This is very sweet of you. Sweet but unnecessary," she said.

I noticed she was giving me a wide berth in the tiny space. It was cute that she thought she could rebuild those walls that had come down the night before.

"Mind getting Pip a bowl of water while I start the prep?"

She hesitated for a second, then opened a cabinet and found an empty takeout bowl. "You really don't have to cook me dinner. I was a minute away from ordering food," she said as she turned the water on in the sink.

"I had a long day," I said conversationally as I pulled a bottle of wine, a corkscrew, and two glasses out of one of the bags. "And thanks to you, for the first time in a long while, I had the energy to deal with it." I opened the wine with a pop and set the bottle aside.

"I heard something went down with one of your officers," she admitted, setting the water dish on the floor. "Mrs. Soo said you caught one of your guys stealing counterfeit bills out of evidence after they spent it at a strip club."

"I wish," I said.

Pip appeared in the doorway with a sports bra in her mouth. She spit the bra out in the bowl and drank around it.

"Come on, Pip. Stop eating laundry." I snatched up the bra. "I believe this is yours."

Mina took the bra and threw it on the counter next to the broccoli.

"Then Yuna all but tackled me on the sidewalk in front of the Pizzeria" Mina said, hopping up to perch on the counter. "She told me you headbutted that no-good Jeong Jaehyun in the candy aisle of the grocery store."

"I worry about this town's language comprehension sometimes."

She smirked. "Yuna also said she heard that you two wrestled into a canned soup pyramid and that the store manager found two cans of minestrone all the way over in the freezer section."

"If you pour, I'll tell you the real, much less eventful story."

"Deal."

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