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Well, thereforward to MondayforOwen Palmer perfectly fit the definition of the word "heartbreaker," without actually deliberately doing anything to break hearts or even knowing he was doing so He was incredibly gorgeous, incredibly brilliant, incredibly nice, and every indication was that he’d filed ory

He was also an extraordinarily powerful wizard and a leading fighter in the ainst evil That may sound sexy and romantic, but in reality I suspected it didn’tfriends with hireeted , Katie Hoas your weekend?"

"Good , yourself And ether as alked toward the subway station

"You had a date with Ethan, didn’t you?" The office grapevine at MSI was possibly the best in history Or Ethan had told Owen They were becoood friends The casual tone of his voice when he asked about my date with anotherhe had no interest inout to make him jealous, but would it have killed him to show the tiniest hint of it?

"Yeah It was nice The date part was, at least But there was soe"

"Such as?"

"I’ll probably need to talk to you about it at work" If I was going to have to discuss certain aspects oflife with him, I preferred to do it in a business capacity

"Now you’ve got ued"

"Trust ht want to track And hoas your weekend?"

"Nothing exciting Ion counterspells, are you? The boss said you had to recover fully" Owen had been ed up in his last encounter with our ne black eye, which stood out against his pale skin, and although he no longer carried his left ar good, trust ht now"

And with that, we’d exhausted our conversational supply We didn’t really hang out together beyond work-related situations I didn’t even knoe had anything in coh dramatically whenever I saw hih to distract e things on the streets of New York every day, and I see stranger things thanskeleton alking alongside us down the Fourteenth Street sidewalk Nobody else who passed us see odd, but with New York co

Iweird, do you?" I asked him

He raised an eyebrow "Define weird"

"Walking skeleton on your left"

I admired his cool as he barelydidn’t work out for hiht he’dJames Bond "H veiled near us I can feel the power in use What do you think we should do?"

"You’re the wizard"

"Well, it ht make a scene if I unveiled it in public"

"If anyone noticed," I reet hi under his breath and twitched his wrist

The skeleton creature suddenly flew up against a NO PARKING sign, where it reht pole, I was so busy looking to see what happened while still trying to walk forward and look casual Owen pulled me out of the way just before I broke my nose

"Nice tearin "You spot ’e it will take for someone to realize it’s there and free it" I didn’t need the re had more to do with business than it did with affection or even chivalry It was a forainst our eneht have been veiled froic could be used on hiical attacks that I spotted And if the ainst him, well, that was a bonus