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"I don’t go thinking about ivesover your shoulder, fear or deter who’s afraid"

"But you’re feeding the dog that tells you relationships don’t last That dog will alin until you stop feeding it"

"Then I won’t I’ll feed that dog pluirls who fall even half in love with you"

"Yourself included?"

I roll ht now because I will for sure die alone Nobody’s wife and ht"

I feel this awful blush run all over me

What do you want froirl I knewwell, she was like a sister for the brief tiirlfriend" I feel pain when I reh "She died before she could even legally drink It caused such an impact I remember how pale she was in the end, and hoeak, and how sad I was to ier and experiencehappiness into those bleak white hospital walls, it was justnot oing to" His expression softens "I’ and turn to face him "Tell me one fear of yours One, Callan Or I’ll never, ever talk to you again You’re freaking inhuhs "I’m so human You have no idea"

"Prove it"

He scowls, but then we start walking again, and he says, "Being trapped"

"You mean physically?"

"In any way, shape, or forhtfully, the wheels spinning in my mind "So is that why you can’t commit to one company? You just take what you want and drop it so you’re free toit work Takeovers"

"Miss Roth," he scoffs, tugging ood at it Because I can Let’s not forget I’ive a life or take it; it doesn’t ht then Because it’s all I know I don’t kno to do it differently" His lips curl as he raises one inquiring eyebrow "My brother and his roughhousing, remember?"

"Yeah"

"Well, five years older is a lot when you’re five I had to devise plans to get what he had and win the ga it from him"

"It was your mode of survival I’d like to ; ere both fighting to be the alpha of the house"

"Well, on?"

"We’re still fighting it out"