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His expression is pure sin "I’lad to hear it, Ms Fairchild"

"There it is," Jahtly lit building just up the block "That’s it, and thank God It’s getting just a little too warm in here"

I bite back a retort As far as I’m concerned, with Daht be in the Jeep, however, has nothing on the interior of the bar It’s cramped and smoky and so warm it feels sticky And, frankly, that’s part of its char expression as alk through the wooden double doors and into the dark interior that he agrees

"It’s definitely got athtly to my back as he scans the room

"What about that table?" Jamie asks, and Damien and I follow her across the roo fun," Jamie says, then disappears toward the ladies’ rooet settled, a teddy bear of a man with a lumberjack beard belts out Gloria Gaynor’s "I Will Survive" with at least as y as Gloria herself ever put into it

I slump a bit in my chair and press my hand over my mouth in sympathetic embarrassment

Da to ju yourself?"

"No," I admit "At the moment, I don’t need the pain"

I can tell that Da, but he still cocks his head and studies ht "Sorry," I say "I shouldn’t joke about that"

"I don’tas you don’t enda"

I turn my head away so that I do not have to meet his eyes I can’t help but think how close I ca the raw edge of the shard into the flesh of h And it is the fact that we are both aware of th to turn and look back into his eyes, expecting to see reproach on his face But all I see is love