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"You’re ridiculous Hayden had his chance to make a move and he didn’t"

"Sole yours in front of them to re "Victoria Glass! I’ myself in front of hi her water

"Ohthis conversation What do you want me to do--walk around his place naked and wait for him to realize?"

"Not a bad plan…"

"Correction: horrible plan"

"My plans work!" Victoria said, set you double-tea walks in on you…"

"Well…there is that," she said with a be

"No shame"

"I mean…he could have joined"

Liz buried her face into her palm How did she end up with the most insanely sexual roo to say is you need to call him and you need to remind hi her boobs from side to side "I would have invited you because of your rack, but he could be different"

"He’s probably not," she said, rolling her eyes

"No, probably not So call hi him from a restaurant"

"Why not? Give him a call, tell him how much you’ve missed him, and can’t wait to see hiist," Victoria said

"No way If I call hiet hoave her the look The one that said, I won’t forget Liz had seen it a thousand tio She wasn’t going to get out of this

As she suspected, Victoria badgered Liz the entire way back to their house and Liz had had enough when she h the door "Okay! I’ll call hi look and then sauntered into the bathroo a second later She knew that meant she would be occupied for at least the next half hour, and the room would be like a sauna when she exited Liz could have put off the phone call, but now that it was in her h her body She couldn’t let the thought go

She wanted to see Hayden even though she was seeing Brady Well, she wasn’t seeing Brady Okay she was, but it was different It’s not as if she could walk around in public with hi They were a behind-closed-doors kind of couple Still, she had freaked out when she had thought Brady was seeing soo see Hayden? Even if nothing happened, she was sure two years of crushing on him wouldn’t disappear just like that

But she didn’t even know if he still wanted to see her So maybe one phone call couldn’t hurt

He picked up on the second ring "Liz, hey!"

"Hey How are you?" Liz said, surprised by Hayden’s enthusiasood to hear fro into her bedroo the door

"Sorry about that I’etting coffee?"

"Yeah," she said, lying back on her bed

"Well, I still do that and about five hundredten- to fourteen-hour days"

"Geez! You must be exhausted"

"I’ve never worked this hard in my life I can’t wait for you to come up and visit That will be ood to see you and not have to deal with everything else," he said

Liz sotten, and he wanted to see her still Butterflies fluttered around in her stomach "So, you’re still set for ht?" he asked a bit tentatively

He hadn’t had any hesitation when talking about seeing her Why was she so hesitant then? With how enraptured she had been with Brady so far this sue to even think of Hayden like that But he still had a pull, even if it wasn’t like Brady Still, she wanted to see Hayden--that much she knew--but it felt unfair to Brady

She knew Brady wasn’t going to be happy with her going to DC to hang out with another guy He hadn’t been happy at the lake house when she had ly talking about hi for trouble She was playing this gareeh she kneould ry with her She and Hayden were friends after all She was allowed to visit friends if she wanted

"Yeah, I do Last weekend in July, right?"

"I think exactly a month from today Let me check" She heard noise on the other end of the phone as he checked the date for her "Yeah I was right One et to see you Are you driving?"

"Yep It’s not that far"

"Cool I’ll have to find you parking There isn’t much up here But let me worry about that; tell me how you are Tell me about the paper"