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"Emalie, you need to tell him"

I shift "II justhe’s in love with another worow sad "Oh no"

"Yeah, and she’s taken He looked at herGodwith such love I’m terrified if I tell him who I am now, he’ll leave and"

Mimi steps forward and places a hand on either side of my shoulders "You won’t know unless you tell hi to do? Keep pretending you’re soer? What if he starts to care about you, or falls for you, then what are you going to do?"

"That won’t happen"

"He stayed the night," she hisses

"Yeah, that still doesn’ta bigger hole and soon you’ll sink in it Tell him who you are"

I should, God, I know I should butI justI can’t I need to knohat happened in his life; I need to figure it all out so I know the best way to approach that

"I will, I swear Just not right now I need a fewwith fire," she warns

"Yeah, I know that"

She sighs and we both stand in silence a while A knock sounds at the door, and I give her a curious look "Who the hell would that be?"

She shrugs "You get it, I have no pants on"

I stare down and realize she doesn’t have pants on, just a pair of panties with a long nize I scrunchto discuss where that shirt carins

I turn and walk over to the door, opening it Who I see is not who I expected to see, andat the door, with a giant, hot biker behind her Mythe russet-haired man is Tyke, but damn, I never expected hih ood deal of sex

"Ah, Pippa, hey"

"Hey Mali I just wanted to coht"

Shit I forgot I gave theht, so they could pop over any tiht now

"Yeah, I’ much better Thanks"

"I’m sorry to intrude, but I just wanted to know if you’ve heard froht, but I’ve tried to call hiht be hurt"

Oh Man

I can’t lie to her, but at the same tiht Crap

"Ah"

"Pippa?"

I flinch at the sound of Rainer’s husky, sleep-filled voice Oh shit Dammit He picked the worst time to show up I see Pippa’s look of surprise, and then a flash of jealousy crosses her features Her eyes flick to , wearing the shorts he had on last night and nothing else That’s because he has nothing else with him