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The really grating part was that I knew even if he wasn’t half as good-looking as he o all over themselves It was the way he carried hiance You wanted to be his friend And you wanted to make him smile And you wanted those daain

"Do you have eye drops for that condition?"

I shed "You could just do that" He ledhallhere we stopped in front of two black double doors

I reached for the handle,on a crazy streak

"You should probably get that under control before we go in" Reid pointed to my eye

"I can’t control it!"

Reid winced, his handso even that look dead sexy, ith his five o’clock shadow and aqua eyes like laser beams Maybe that was the problem--my eyes felt so insecure they started to twitch in his hot presence

"He’ll think you’re winking"

I rubbedto coers "Why does it matter?"

"Trustin his presence"

I ignored the way s I was the pretty thing Or my twitchy eyes were "Youthat" I rubbed under my eyes just in case there was any leftover black eyeliner "Thattome "It will soon, trust me" He frowned, then licked his thuht eye "There" He pressed his lips together, then patted downair out of my cheeks "Did you really just mom-lick me? Then pat down ether I just want you lookingpresentable before I throw you into the fire Then again, if you look like you just got run over, he nore what I’m about to do to him"

"Do?"

"Just follow my lead Don’t shoeakness"

I rolled et this over with"

Reid opened the door and cracked his neck What? Were we going to brawl or so? "After you"

CHAPTER EIGHT

REID

As expected, Max was sitting behind his excessively largeworld domination His red leather chair was turned away from his pristine desk, his feet up on the sill It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he actually wrote in his schedule: Gaze over the city, h