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"Perfect," I say, and she inac?

"You knoell," he confir his crisp white shirt is indeed hugging the spectacular chest ood stuff tonight," he adds "I’ll take the Louis XIII"

She holds out her hands for his jacket and he re it in his pants pocket before allowing her to take the jacket "I’ll hang this up by the door as usual," she infornac is to celebrate a good day or drive away a bad one"

"That answer changed when E me a curious, pleased look "Thanks indeed, Emily, because I have been witness to this man after a truly bad day and it’s not pretty"

Shane directs a playful scowl in her direction "Be gone before you scare her off and you’re stuck withaway, and Shane refocuses on me "Apparently you saved Susie from my foulto be as ladylike as possible as I atteh, half- my waist to help me into the seat

"Thank you," I murmur, and when I expect him to move to the opposite side of the booth, he instead slides in besideme to scoot around I make it to the center before he says, "Oh no you don’t," and the next thing I know, his fingers have closed down overbetween his pal his head in "

Not from you, I think, but I say, "Not anye you at first"

He inches back to look at me "Did you now?"

"I did Ion the skills I’d once thought would serve ood at reading people"

His eyes light, the shadohere to be found, and it pleases me to think I’ve made them disappear "What didan elbow on the table, his body still angled toward et a job done, without any fluff about it"

"That still doesn’t tell me what you think it says about me"

"Of course it does You’re a workaholic"

"A workaholic"

"That’s right It was a large triple shot That says you are running on fu to stay focused Oh And you don’t take no for an answer"

"The coffee told you I don’t take no for an answer?"

"No That part I gathered fro no for an answer"

We break into hter that fades into a hint of a s There is a pureness to our shared desire that I decide is created by us having no past to color the e feel about each other

"Let’s talk about your coffee," he says, putting me in the assessment hot seat