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Shane backs us up and around a bit and his father walks onward in the direction of the lobby "OhShane leadin our floor to face me "He just looked at you like you’d scored the prize Like you’re the brother who got his secretary in bed, to use s my hips and walks me to him, his back to the doors "Which, of course, you know is not true"

"I do know, but that doesn’t change how naked I feel right now" My fingers curl on his chest "Really Can this night end any time now?"

"Not for a while, I’m afraid, but when it does, it’ll be us, in bed, preferably naked"

"Should we even be this close in an elevator? Or I guess we can, because it’s kudos to Shane for fucking the secretary"

"Emily--"

"I know I know it’s not you, I pro on the cake, or u," he says, reaching up and covering ht I’d hear in the saroith thatkind of dirty "At least rimace "Until he decided to desert me Maybe that’s why my brother is the way he is He’s selfish like my father"

"Don’t give hiive it to Derek We all choose ant to be in life"

"We don’t choose everything Or"I could have stayed and faced this"

"I told you," he says, lacing the fingers of one of his hands with mine "Trust your instincts" He leads me into the hallway

"They told me to run"

"Then you needed to run"

At the expense of law school, I think, but I shove that thought aside before it starts shredding ain "I’m pretty sure I’m fired," I say, as we reach his apartment

"He won’t fire you," he says "He’ll a over his secretary, not his about Derek co inside and turning to wait on hi to clean up your background," he says, shutting the door andto the kitchen "Let’s make coffee and talk"

"I’ with hiular ba each other A ht, and all we have been and could be, expanding and shifting between us