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"You’ll be even et you Then you won’t have any visitors"

"Like they’ll catch uise"

"They have i care of that"

"It’s not as easy as you think, and as I recall, you weren’t even that successful at it Now, go I have work to do"

"You’re no fun anyhed in exasperation "I’ain" Then I had to blink because the wo talk to Idris had vanished "Not a smart move!" Idris shouted The pedestrians on the sidewalk just kept pushing around hied me away from the store When ere a block away, I said, "Looks like there’s trouble in paradise"

"I’ot to be exhausted at the end of the day fro that"

"I bet it only lasts a fewone of his spells of businesslike activity In a fewto think of ways to make his employees dance the can-can"

We headed back don, and as we crossed City Hall Plaza on our way to the office building, he asked, "Do you want to get together again tonight?" Before I could answer, he shook his head and added, "And I just realized how that sounded I know I shouldn’t assume you never have any other plans I should think to ask you a few days in advance But I didn’t really mean it as a date You don’t have your immunity and I’d feel better if I could keep an eye on you"

"As I recall, you warded o hoht I’ll be okay"

He looked away for a second, and when he looked back at ht pink spots on both of his cheeks "Okay, then It’s not just for your safety I’d like to see you Last night may have been the first entirely uneventful tiether, and I’d like , but I do already have plans with my roommates I’, but his ears had turned pink I hoped he didn’t take it as a rejection, but I did have plans, and I didn’t want to be the kind of girl who ditched my friends as soon as a man came into my life

We dropped coats and his mask off in his office, and I took off the necklace before it drove , then ent upstairs to find Merlin Unfortunately, we found Ki in while Trix took the day off, but even so, she’d already made that area her own, much as she’d taken over my office She’d moved her pictures and plants and had even put a nameplate with her name on it on the desk

"Did you have an appointment?" she asked curtly as we approached the desk

"No, but I i us," Owen said with the calm he usually displayed in situations like that He art in his personal life, but at work he often ed to be just that cool

"I’d better check with hi a flirtatious look at Oho renored her entirely, walking toward Merlin’s office doors

She was opening her reeted us with a s us inside I resisted the i look over estured us to take seats on his sofa before he went to the counter on the far side of the office "I’ve justis excellent," he said as he poured He solved the proble one hover alongside as he carried the other two over to us The third cup settled itself on the s chair he took "Nohat have you seen with your ione?"

I described what I’d noticed about the subway ads, television commercials, and Times Square billboards, as well as the appearance of the store "It’s possible they haven’t necessarily spent as ht because the media companies may not even have noticed that there are ads Still, it would have been an iet those ads up physically, and that would have taken money"