"It occurs to me that we haven't eaten today," Dirk says. After the university, he helped me make a grocery run, and I delivered supplies to a few of our renters. But this time, I had the presence of mind to hide him behind the bushes, so three deliveries only took fifteen minutes.
"Really? I forgot to eat?" I ask. I'm not known for skipping meals. I once ate an entire pizza while I had the stomach flu. "Do you think it's the spray Marie gave me?" I hold up the silver cylinder.
"You haven't tried it, yet."
I'm dying to try Marie's secret sauce. It's my ace in the hole. Dirk seems pretty confident that the jealousy ruse is going to work, but I like having some cold, hard science on my side.
"Maybe I should spray some on me to try it out, now." I take the silver cylinder out of my pocket
