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It’s the exact thing I’d found concerningfrom him, it’s pure seduction "I like me in your jacket because it s as I’m in it"

"You aren’t in it now," I point out

"You won’t be either in a fewus toward the entryway and wrapping his ar to have you tohad I driven the Bentley and wrecked it," I say as the double glass doors part for us and we enter a fancy lobby with a long oak registration desk to our right, and chairs and tables speckled here and there to our left

"You weren’t going to wreck it," he assuresand we both know it"

"I don’t knohat you’re talking about," I say quickly, and it’s the worst lie I’ve told I know and I’m now certain he knows that I didn’t wantht

"Besides," he says, givingus toward the elevators, "I wouldn’t have let you wreck it"

"All that confidence and command won’t stop , I promise you" We turn a corner and stop at what appears to be a private bank of elevators "There’s a law of nature element to it"

He punches the call button "I don’t believe in the law of nature any more than I do the power of the universe"

"Never Not at all?"

"No To do so would infer I have no control over the outco? I want control That means I have to believe I can take it"

"What about how you just happened to coht when I was at the desk? That’s fate Or the stars aligning, or whatever you want to call it"

He steps tohe does often, and I could easily get used to it, but of course, I will never get the chance "I chose to come after you," he states

"But you wouldn’t have had the opportunity if the ti hadn’t been perfect"