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"Are you from the area then?" Chris asked

"No, my family lives in Tampa My dad’s a professor at South Florida," she told the histo look at her Chris proceeded to kill Brady’s character off

"Yeah," she said, staring up into his dark, intense eyes

"I didn’t know that"

"You never asked"

"What does he teach?" Brady asked, suddenly very interested

"Calculus primarily"

"Huh And you’re not a math person?" he asked

"I’m a Morehead scholar I’m perfectly fine at math It’s just not ot Chris’s attention "You’re a Morehead scholar?" he asked, sounding very ihest ed, her cheeks flushing "Yeah It is"

"Da her

"That’s impressive," Brady said softly

"Thanks," she said, embarrassed She turned away froaht her ansould distract them so much, but she couldn’t deny that she liked how interested Brady had been in her background

The guys played a couple gaain She rarely got much sleep when she ith Brady, but it tended to be for other reasons entirely

"Hey, are you falling asleep?" Brady asked, nudging her lightly

"Oh, no," she said, juuys need to come up to New York sometime," Chris said "My place there is smaller than this and I pay ten times as much on it, but you can’t beat the location in Manhattan"

Liz looked up at Brady as he turned to look at her She could read his expression Chris clearly knew that they weren’t out in public Brady wouldn’t have brought the in North Carolina, anyway?" she asked, changing the subject so Brady didn’t have to respond Brady kissed her lips once before returning to his game She wondered if that was her thank you

"Oh, I’ala event or whatever it is this weekend," Chris told her

"Oh, really? I didn’t know you would be there," Liz said That was pro At least she would know one other person besides Brady

"Yeah Are you going?"

She looked up at Brady expectantly "Yeah, I got her a ticket," he said

"You two are going together?" Chris asked,one of the buttons repeatedly with his thuhed and looked down at her She could tell he wasn’t happy with that question She knew they couldn’t go together She really, really wanted to go with hiht before the prined up for, but she couldn’t help silently pleading with hiood idea with the election co up," Brady said

Chris looked as if he wanted to say more about it, but he didn’t And that closed it "You know, you could always go with me"

"What?" Brady asked before Liz could speak

"Hear me out I don’t have a date, and she doesn’t have a date It would be better for both of us if ent together Then no weird old ladies will try to hand me off to their sons, and, yes, that has happened before," Chris told the to read Brady’s reaction

"It’s really a flawless plan," Chris said

"What do you think?" Liz asked Brady

He leaned down and whispered in her ear so that Chris couldn’t hear "I don’t want anyone else even near you, but co as you know, baby, you’re going home with me"

"I don’t want anyone else," she whispered back

Brady smiled and nodded at Chris "I think that ork better than you both showing up alone I can send you the details for the weekend"