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Saxton closed theht up and put her hand out "It’s a pleasure, Ruhn Saxton has impeccable taste, and I can tell he’s exercised it to his benefit once again I’m Carmichael"

Ruhn blinked and looked over in a panic, rather as if an exotic bird as not house-trained had landed on his shoulder

"You mentioned you have a buyer for this place?" Saxton smoothed over

The distraction worked perfectly Caro that I did When you bought that penthouse without iven if you give ?" Ruhn asked softly

"Yes" Saxton locked eyes with the o"

"Well" Carmichael all but tap-danced it out "This is splendid news I have a listing forht here"

With aded to whip out a sheet and a pen fro down: balance on a knee, pop the locks, out with the paper and a Bic

"Here Let’s get this done and I’ll bring the heart, Saxton took the listing forn that, I just need to confirot out a tape measure and her iPhone, and headed off "You’re a lawyer You knohere to put your John Hancock"

As her caffeinated footfalls clipped down in the direction of the kitchen, Saxton glanced at Ruhn

Theclose by, his hands loosely linked, his eyes cal this"

And that hen it happened A feeling of total peace ca that had been prayed for by an agnostic And it was grounded in the pale brown of Ruhn’s eyes

"I love you," Saxton said abruptly

That beautiful stare flared so wide, the whites around those pupils flashed like ht

Saxton waved the paper around "This house, this…shrine? I was keeping it as a testaain And I realize, I don’t need to keep this anyo, and that’s all because of you" He held up his free hand "Which is not to say you have to reciprocate I brought you here because I just--"

Ruhn silenced the rush of words: "I love you, too"

Saxton started to smile

And he didn’t stop Even as he used Ruhn’s broad back to put his signature on the line

In order to o--and sometimes that meant mental shifts that happened on the inside…whereas with others, it was about things in the physical world

Often, the tere interrelated

With Ruhn in his life, he was now infinitely more interested in the future than he was the past

Which was as it should be, he thought as he put the cap back on the Bic Life, after all, was so rets

Thank God

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Standing in the training center’s gym, Novo pointed at Peyton "Hiether "Fair enough So it’ll be the two of you--then Craeg and Boone together--and Paradise will fight Payne I’ll take Axe Let’s square off, people"

Novo rin to herself as she assus bent, her hands up, her shoulders tensing as she got ready to punch Peyton, on the other hand, didn’t bother being discreet He was s like a motherfucker as he fell into the sae barked out "One…two…three"

As the whistle blew, Novo went down to the ht Peyton right at the ankles The oing into a free fall that left hi on his face No tiave hiather his wits