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"We’re interns, that’s like a whole different caste system I want to make friends while I’m here In case you haven’t realized, a lot of people are scared shitless of you at Carma"

He lifts a brow

I reach into his shirt pocket and pull out a lighter and a cigarette

"Why haven’t you coht up He also sounds displeased

"You went to the terrace?" I counter

"I always go the terrace Why would I stop going? It’sme intently

"I had work to do" Then I s his smarts

There’s a twitch to his lips "Barely You hardly talk--so you can understand why it would be hard for ue rather too sexily

I frown Callan rests his chin on his hand and scrapes his thuhtfully as he studies es closer, his shoulder close to s and an appetite for the blood of girls with secret clusters of freckles?" he asks

"Well, you did show me your appetite is rather hefty"

"I’m not the only one with a hefty appetite You couldn’t take h the other day"

I open my mouth and can’t even think of what to say

"Look this can’t happen," I finally say when I recover "My brother will kill us"

"What the devil doesn’t know can’t hurt hi nolike a raire, torn to the fringes, explosion-ready "You’re shameless"

"I am"

"Reckless and irreverent!"

"Yep" He set to know you, Olivia," he whispers in my ear, then he looks at me, his eyes heavy-lidded "I want ain and holds the back of my head as he partsand when you’re not," I whisper, slipping ers into his hair

God! I rins, then he cups the back of ently you’d think I was made of crystal

He kisses me, softly this tiainst the back of his neck I groan fro, Livvy" He smiles as he withdraws, and he looks at me so tenderly, as if he wants to protect in, unsure of what to say

He seearette now and lights up, and I look at it yearningly as he offers it to me

I shake arette Just watching hiarette s and ready to beg hier insidewhen I stand to leave "I need to go back to my friends before they see arette then he shoves his hands into his pockets as I head to the doors "Livvy," he says