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Blake kept his s close to an edge

“She does”

“I believe she can assist me”

“Looking to reibility status, Blackwell?”

A slight weight lifted froht “The Forbes list ine”

“I don’t know about that I have a vivid iination”

Hunter kne vivid Blake’s iination could be “Can she help?”

Blake reached to the inside pocket of his jacket and rele card from the back of his own business cards He tapped the se of his hand and cocked his head “You have to understandI have nothing to do with Alliance I can’t guarantee Sairls will accept you as a client”

“Accept me?”

Blake let his sain “My wife isclients If any of the women in her e to walk away”

Hunter thought of his goals, offered an innocent smile “Women love me”

“Which works hen finding a date, not the sa, Blackwell: if they pass you over, I won’t step in on your behalf”

Blake offered him Samantha’s business card

Taking his tilance “I’m not worried”

Blake chuckled “I know you, Blackwelland I knoife Not only should you be worried, you ht want to find plan B to whatever problems you have”

“I’m not the same kid I once was”

“None of us are I just hope you’ve learned to take rejection better than your earlier years I seeet your point across”

“I think ere both guilty of that”

Blake considered his observation “You were caught”

“You were the son of a duke Rather untouchable, if I recall”

“True Sam rejects violence of any kind”

“As happen when you can fix your proble”

Blake shook his head “We still fight, just not with our fists”