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"Yes, but to what degree and hat new conditions that must be met?" he countered "I knew the second you didn’t want me on the Ducati that you’d found out Then you slow-mo-Joe walked down the street You never do that Is that hoe’re going to be now? Dancer’s so fragile that Dancer doesn’t get to do anything not Mega-approved, and thata fly?"

Sounded bloody good to ot stuck on a luhed and spat it back out into the bowl He was beside ive me the Heimlich, as he had so many times in the past when I’d wolfed my food too fast to s "I’d let you swat a fly," I said crossly

He smiled faintly "Yeah, but would you let me swat a bee?"

"Probably"

"How about set off a bouess we can’t be friends anymore Because I will set off bo beautiful bike of yours and wrap eous hair and sh and see your eyes flash fire Or I a O’Malley,else does And I don’t want to ot how to breathe Wrap his areous hair and my eyes flashed fire I deflected instantly, "Suts and sweat"

"You sood a lot Like fall leaves, hot apple cider spiked with dark rus of sassafras You smell like life and the kind of days I want to enjoy while I’m here Do you have any idea how I felt when you caone off and lived soto be there for any of it, but then I thought the angels h to kiss you Not a fourteen-year-old kiss A nineteen-year-old kiss A really hot, sexy nineteen-year-old kiss" He grinned "Assuer nored the part about kissing That was tooto not only insist that I face his heart issue, but kissing, too? That was total bullshit "You’ve got to be shitting me," I said coolly "You not only want us to stay friends, you want me to care about you even more? Are you batshit crazy? Or do you think I am?"

"Yes, no, and no," he said evenly "Or will you only care about someone you knoill live forever?"

"Like that even exists," I evaded

"I happen to know it does I watched two of Ryodan’s a"

I barely ed to conceal a wince Bloody hell, if Ryodan knew Dancer knew that, I wouldn’t have to worry about his heart killing him Ryodan would