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The door opened and any atte position she was still in with Abel standing between her legs against her desk was squashed when he didn’t budge He took in a very surprised-looking Logan from top to bottoht?" Abel asked, still staring at Logan

"No" Nellie tried in vain tocoe of her desk with this ht’s date stood staring at theht" Abel kissed her forehead before finally walking away

"Coan," she said, her face coan, and he walked past hi taken aback by what he’d just witnessed, Logan smiled at her nervously as soon as the door closed behind Abel "So the rumors about you and Aweless Ayala are really true? Why didn’t you tell me?"

"Because there is no Aweless Ayala andas stupid as she knew that sounded Clearly they’d been at the very leastout if notstraight at Logan that he’d be at her house tonight "We work together now" She cleared her throat "But besides that, we’re just friends"

Logan shook his head "I’lad he didn’t wipe the floor with ht?"

"No, don’t be silly," she said with a laugh in an atteht of it even as she pulled her skirt down casually and sat down "I’ve known him for years now You know because of the work I do with 5th Street I’ht too, so he’s around ely with a ss he walked in holding "Are you really? That’s so cool This is one of the biggest and hts in a while So, uh, what’s he like?" Crunching on a tortilla chip, he s at her a bit too excited "Ihionna lie I feared for my life for a minute there"

Nellie san any inside information on Abel, especially about her relationship with hiuy He’s just very private That’s all"

"Okay, but c’mon, Nellie You and hiuns, she shook her head again "Nope, we’re just friends"

Hearing hi up on this "Well, that’s still so cool Does thattheon, she stared at it "I suppose if I asked," she said, glad they were off the subject of her and Abel "To be honest, as close as I ith 5th Street, I’ve never really been a big boxing fan I’ up to it that have anything to do with the prohting, but if I had to pick hian eyes widened" Are you serious?"

Looking up at him, she winced "Pretty bad, huh? I’ll do a little houess It just has so little to do withdeal"

"Well yeah," Logan agreed quickly "I don’t follow boxing very closely either Only reason I even recognized your friend, Abel, is because of all the hype lately, but a few o, I’d never even heard of hi are the sa the behind the scenes stuff, it probably isn’t iuilty about her non-interest in Abel’s opponent, she was distracted by the food Logan had set out "Oh ry

"And the salsa with the big chunks of avocado in it"

Nellie rolled her chair away froot closer to where he’d set the food on her desk

"Ahean motioned to his chest, and it took her athe flush suddenly rush up her face, it suddenly hit her without needing to confirm it With a jerk of her neck, she looked down at her exposed lacy top of her bra The three top buttons of her blouse were still undone

Quickly spinning her chair to take the front of her blouse out of his sight, she buttoned up her blouse quickly She felt even stupider about saying that she and Abel were nothing ether, but still she’d adain, he was cheith a smirk on his face She found it a bit odd that this a her out It would ht be a little perturbed by this, not enjoying it soAt least she didn’t have to feel guilty "So is it as good as I said it was?" she asked, picking up one of the guacamole-and-sour-cream-smothered flautas

"Yes," he nodded as he covered his mouth with his napkin, but even with his rin on his face