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“I can see I’ve caught you at a bad time,” he added as he eyed her bathrobe in a way that mildly offended her and made her blush at the same time, “but I was wondering if you’d like to maybe go grab a burger or something for dinner with me tonight? Or catch a movie over at the TriplePlex? Or maybe just grab a cup of coffee?” He finished weakly, obviously discouraged by her lack of reaction to any of his suggestions. They stood there and looked at each other for a moment while Maddy cast about for some excuse for why she couldn’t go anywhere with this man. Some reason other than the real reason of course, which was that she was simply terrified. She still bled inside over her breakup with Mike and she had no desire to ever give a man the power to hurt her like that again. But now here was this perfectly polite and handsome man who had already wormed his way into her head, seemingly without even trying. And now he was trying. Maddy felt like a deer in the headlights.