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"Fuck," he growled low

"Yeah! And is toward her brother cloud s toward her brother could do that?"

"She said that?"

"Yes!" Liz snapped "I don’t knoaway, just like you!"

She hadn’t evenfrom?

"Are you still at the paper?" Brady asked

"I just left I’ home" She hated that he didn’t respond to her outburst She just wanted to rile hiet as emotional as he did that time he told Heather and Elliott he loved her, force his

"I’m in Durham and have an hour"

He said it so oing to see him Well, of course she was It was always better to talk about this stuff in person But she was al to coet me?" she finally asked when he didn’t continue

"I’ll be there in ten round her teeth and thought about chucking her phone into the side of the building Goddamn man!

When Brady picked her up, she didn’t knohere they were going It had to be somewhere close and private, because he didn’t have much time to talk She knew Victoria was supposed to be at the lab, but they couldn’t risk her co a politician in her bedroom That would ?" Lizto drive"

"Okay" Liz shrugged and looked out the

"Do you knohat I woke up to this ?" Brady asked after a pause

"An alarm clock?" Liz asked

Brady’s eyes darted over to her side of the car, proclai rather loudly that her sarcas to Heather thankingsomeone else"

Liz sed hard, but kept her eyes locked on him even as he drove the him, Brady," she said finally

"Yes, well, I assumed that," he said sharply "However, that doesn’t explain why your face is on the front cover of the paper with this person…another guy"

"I visited him in DC," she answered truthfully

Brady breathed in slowly It was clear that he was trying to control hi a friend in DC"

"Hayden is my friend" She hadn’t meant for her voice to come like a whisper, but the coldness to his tone scared her

"Hayden," Brady repeated the name

"He’s the, uh…editor of the paper"

The silence was er She wanted him to yell at her, scream, tell her how pissed he was, but he didn’t He just sat there his hand lightly clenched on the steering wheel as he drove through town

"And how do you feel about hi from him Liz clenched her fists at her sides and felt the heat rise in her face Brady wouldn’t even tell her how he felt, and yet he demanded she tell him about Hayden

"He’s not you" She turned her head away from Brady She had already told Brady she loved him That had to be clear

"He likes you," Brady said simply

"It doesn’t really matter! Didn’t you hear me? He’s not you This isn’t a competition, Brady There’s no roo tiht now Why? Why can’t I look at someone who I liked for two years before I evenin her seat to face hi I felt when he kissed lad it was out in public It wasn’t Hayden I wanted It was you And if it’s not you, then it doesn’t matter"

"You think this is a competition? That I’m jealous? I made it very clear that I didn’t want anyone else near you," Brady said, his knuckles white on the steering wheel