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"Um, thank you for back there," he says, putting a mug down on the central island that separates us. I have no idea what I did. I decide to tell him that.
"I am not sure what I did." Someone needs to tell authors lack of contractions make characters sound robotic .. or foreign 🤔

I want to rip my hair out, this author doesn’t use contractions and just used “chow” in the dialogue that I’m fairly certain was meant to be ciao, the Italian word 🙈 omg I can’t believe I paid for this book 😭