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Abruptly, I sat up and rolledHe knew exactly what effect he’d had on me

Bewildered, I breathed, "How did you do that?"

"It’s a gift"

His cavalier tone ticked ainedstudy hall, you give er quotes--"but you’ve irl by lunch No thanks"

His face fell "No, I--"

Aidan sashayed in, greeting the crowd as he ca

Sawyer lowered his voice but kept whispering toon and Aidan weren’t there He said, "I wouldn’t do that to you I wouldn’t cheat on you, ever"

Aidan turned around in front of the desk and gave us an outraged look for talking while he wasa speech Sawyer didn’t see it, but I did I faced forward and opened

Sawyer had coe new trend

He’d dropped the playful teasing and blatantly cootten upset at my tart response, like he actually cared

I leaned ever so slightly toward hi the arc froed pink, unusual for Sawyer, as difficult to e to knohether he felt the buzz too

Apparently not I juavel on the block that Ms Yates had placed on her desk for Aidan "Point of order, Mr President," Sawyer said "Have you officially started the ? You haven’t asked the secretary to read theSawyer, he turned back to the forty representatives crowding the rooot Ms Yates’s desk, after all He didn’t need to Instead of presiding over the council fro theup Sawyer and I looked like his secretarial pool