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"I told you eight," she said, crossing her are brsts and practically shoved thery eyes Did she knohat that did to him? He sure as hell hoped not

"And I told you seven, Rory"

She siestured to the flowers in his hand "What are those?"

His irritation forgotten, he frowned down at the woman "They’re flowers"

She rolled her eyes at him "I meant, what are they for?"

"For you"

"Why?" she asked, eying the roses as if they were going to attack her

Christ, she was acting like she’d never received flowers before and it took him a second to realize that she probably hadn’t If he didn’t want her brothers to come work for him so badly he’d be tempted to kick their asses for this bullshit

"Because that’s what I do for ht a woman flowers before, but for Rory he made it a point to pick up the flowers on his way hoet ready It just felt wrong not to get them for her

"I’m not really your date, Connor," she pointed out as she took the flowers, looking and acting like she didn’t care, but he didn’t miss the pleased little smile or the way she smelled the flowers as she turned to place them on the s hi her a box of chocolates Next time, he decided as he stepped aside so that she could lock her door

"U?" she asked as she looked down

"Holding your hand," he said, enjoying the feel of her smaller hand in his He’d never been one for PDA, but with Rory he illing to ot hi to pull her hand away, but he sinored her as he walked with her around his truck and opened the door for her With an eye roll and a muttered, "I could have done that myself," she cliue as he closed the door for her It always irritated hiuys, but it absolutely pissed him off that she had such low expectations of how she should be treated Well, he’d fix that He’d use this time to show her exactly how she should be treated so that when he was through with her, she would at least know that she deserved better It was the least he could do for her after all, he decided as he cli that?" Rory asked a minute later as she tried to carefully pull her hand free, but he ignored her since he knew that she just didn’t know any better, but she’d learn, he promised hi up on trying to free her hand to glare at hiet used to it, Rory For the next fivethe idea more and more It really was too bad that sex wasn’t involved in this deal, but he’d have to settle for the s her

"Ah, no For the next fivewith this sick and twisted charade while we’re in public to getto start soon since I’veher hand back and trying to take hiuard, but he’d been ready He had her hand firo

"When it’s just the two of us I don’t have to do anything but try to figure out how to get rid of the body without the police figuring it out," she said, giving her hand one ave up