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"You look great," I told her as soon as I was done "Not in the least bit haggardly"

"It’s just drinks So I’ to worry about the fact that I haven’t shavedunderwear that cooing to be fine Tell et home We have court tomorrow!"

"Okay, res a roll of quarters on a date?"

"No! It’s okay to want hiht"

"I never told you that" She looked confused

"Oh, I ood luck!" I patted her on the back She gave o back to our office We heard Caave each other a silent nod It was Go Ti the catwalk in Paris At least Jess did I accidently slammed orgeous," Braden said,me feel all fluttery as usual "Are you okay?" He winced

"I’ in lad that he hadn’t seen the incident with the chair earlier

"Hello, Braden She’s all yours Are you ready to go, Cae to be so cool like that?

"I am See you tomorrow, Gabrielle Talk to you soon, Braden" With that the two of theo have drinks I watched theet on the elevator then I turned back to Braden

"Are you happy now?" he asked, getting up and coently rub my injured shoulder with the other He looked down at me with a smile

"What do you ether, didn’t you? You’ve certainly had the for our shadow" I couldn’t hide anything froether because I know that they’re attracted to each other and they have fun together I think they wouldwill happen just because he asked her out for drinks They’ve gone out for drinks before and nothing did"

"I’ll let you in on a little fa Ha to ask her out this tiht cousin for reat!" I looked up at him with barely contained excitement "She’ll be so happy! They really do make a nice couple And then you won’t worry anyave me a look that seemed like a combination of amusement and affection "I haven’t been worried in quite a while You and I belong together and nobody’s going to get in the way of that" He pushed a loose strand of my hair behind ht so you can hear all about it when she gets home?"

"You know hty look, squeezing my bottom There was a reason I kept hi I finally convinced Braden to watch the first couple of episodes of Downton Abbey with h he was kind of gru into it

"You know, you’re right, this show’s pretty good"

"I knew you would like it! It’s kind of hot too, all that repressed sexuality"

"Yeah, maybe we should play rakish aristocrat and sexually curious daughter of a wealthy landowner," he joked, and raised his eyebrows provocatively