Naomi Shaw was so furious she was speechless. She just tried to angrily shake his hand off, so he quickly changed his tune and tried to coax her. "Hey, hey, how about this? Dylan and I will come over for dinner tonight. You can treat that money as our payment for meals. That should be fine, right?"
"No way!"
Naomi Shaw rejected him without a second thought. 'He's really pushing his luck. What's this about being roommates? And now he wants to freeload for meals?'
Julian Donovan tried to justify it. "You know Dylan loves your cooking. I can cook, but I'm not nearly as good as you are. That little brat sometimes refuses to eat anything I make!"
"I'll think about it!"
Naomi Shaw had no choice but to give him a non-committal answer for now. Otherwise, he would have demanded a definitive answer today. If they just kept standing around here, the two kids would have starved by now.
