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“You look… hot,” he admitted.

She grinned.

“Thanks. Let me get my jacket.”

He helped her put it on and then they left.

Seated in a quiet corner of the restaurant, drinking wine, Eve and Terry spoke about everything except work.After a gamut of topics, she began telling him about her brother and how he was so protective of her.

“He even interrogated Kendo,” she remembered with a smile. The smile faded as she realised that she had just brought up her dead fiancé in a conversation with her date.

Terrence didn’t seem offended, he just looked at her with a patient gaze. “Are you over him?”