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"No, I have to hold your hand to help stay in character," he said with a shrug as he turned into O’Malley’s busy parking lot He’d planned on taking her out to a nice restaurant and then out for a drink, but Rory apparently had different expectations for the night judging by her attire That was fine, more than fine actually He’d help build up her expectations so that when the next guy came around, and he’d probably beat the shit out of him just on principle alone, she wouldn’t put up with cheap assles that refused to go out of their way to treat her the way that she deserved

"Stay in character?" she said slowly as if she couldn’t quite believe what he said

"Exactly," he said absently as he drove towards the back of the large parking lot since he didn’t feel like wasting twentyfor a pri those spots He’d never feel right if he took a spot up front and forced a wo lot where the street lights didn’t quite reach and where any assle could be hiding in the woods that bordered the property

"I think we should set soround rules," she said absently as she shot an anxious look over her shoulder towards the busy restaurant

Rory Jaht he’d see the day when that happened and he couldn’t help but feel satisfied that he was responsible for it She was always trying to be tough and act as though nothing ever fazed her It was nice to see her act huht," he said with a firreement When she opened heroff a bunch of rules that he would only ignore, he decided to save the to her how this was going to play out

"For the next five irlfriend I don’t expect sex," but he sure as hell wouldn’t turn it down fro with me If that means that I’ll have to suck it up and hold your hand, have you sit on my lap, and kiss you in order to do that then that’s just what I’ll have to do," he said with a careless shrug that he kneould just piss her off

"Look," Rory practically hissed, "there’s no need to continue with this sick and disturbing plan of yours We can just call a truce and move on and eventually everyone else will as well"

He pretended to think that over "You really think so?"

"Yes!"

"I guess we could do that," he said, purposely letting his words trail off and biting back a shed with relief She really should have known better "But we’re not going to"

"I Hate You"

He chuckled as he opened his door "You’ll have to do better than that if you want that little project of yours," he reminded her before he shut the door

It wasn’t exactly a surprise that she sat there fu hinored her since he was in such a good ht and for the next fivethat wouldher in his bed, but that would never happen If she didn’t like hi that, then she absolutely hated hi he had that she was even now considering the pros and cons of kicking hiain, he knew that she would never risk her project If her assistant hadn’t spilled everything he knew about the project while Connor duct taped hins sure as hell would have They were meticulous, detailed and well presented and they’d ain shove it aside and focus He knew that once he had McGill on board that his plan would work