Patrick laughed and shrugged. "It's a deal and I guess she changed her mind?"
He paid for the food and then the three of them took over an empty table in the food court. Patrick opened up his taco but he was distracted by the speed at which Mairead was inhaling hers. He truly hoped it was a sigh of just being a growing, teenage girl and not something else.
He met Clio's eye and gave her a worried look as Mairead continued to work her way through the tacos like they were her last meal.