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I wait

He leans forward on his desk "You’re so blunt it’s almost insanely attractive"

"Almost?"

He nods "Almost"

His eyes darken as soon as he says that, and we both stop s

His office could’ve just fallen away, and we could’ve been up on that terrace again, nothing but a guy and a girl and that’s it

He grins sardonically "I expected you’d say yes, Livvy" He raises a challenging brow and looks at me with the same eyes uy I uy, I tell him the truth

"Ithank you, but I’ the rest, but he seeod This is not good! "After what happened--"

He cuts me off "I told your brother I’d help, and I want to coh I told him you’d learn here, and I think the best way for you to do that is to be my assistant"

He leans back and studies me

Of course he doesn’t miss the fact that I still haven’t said yes

There’s an inti war you weren’t asking me for my brother"

"I’ at etI could--anything," he emphasizes "I couldn’t have built Carma without the experience Someone needs to do the dirty work I quickly learned none ofto do it as effusively as when they know you’re willing to do it yourself"

"I want the work," I agree, "but I want to help people too I don’t know that I’ll feel co so closely with you when you specialize in ripping co I could learn here, but I wanted to remain distant from that aspect of it"

Shadows cross his eyes, and his voice drops a decibel as he leans forward on his desk again "Is that what you think I do? Just take a bite, chew them up and spit out the pieces, Olivia?" He seehtly amused "You clearly don’t understand what I do here You have a lot to learn"