“Ma, this is my, ah… This is Shannon,” he acknowledged, looking clearly uncomfortable. He cast a nervous glance at me and then turned back to his mother, clearing his throat twice before adding, “She’s my, uh… She’s new.” He shoved me further into the back seat of his mother’s SUV and then tossed both bags in alongside me. “I told her we’d drop her home.” “Hello, Shannon,” his mother said, turning in her seat to flash me a megawatt smile. “Shannon, this is my ma,” he announced gruffly. “I’ll, ah, go and find your shoe.” He closed the car door then, locking me inside with his mother, and jogged
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