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But I’ here, when all I want is to shout it to the rooftops But saying it aloud will only bringto end soon So I only tell the girls that I went to Navy Pier with him recently, which surprises all of them

"Wow He invited you?"

"I sort of invited h, then smirk and sip from my straw

They’re dead silent And then they all seem to talk at the sauy until you’ve opened up to each other

Wynn says even then apparently things that have been buried too deep take a while or a trigger to surface

Gina tells me to listen to my brother, that he wants what’s best for me

And I just listen and that’s that

The next week, Callan’s got a thousand things on his plate, it see, and Alcore’s fighting back against his takeover

My eyes are blurry at 9 pm I’m on my seventh cup of coffee

I hear the elevator of , and I see Callan step out and we s

"You should be ho," I say stubbornly

We both start for the elevators

He sly "You have time to track my schedule?" He absently pushes a part of ht I’d kept you busy enough"

"You do"

As he exposesthe curve of h, apparently" Callan cups the back ofto do with that extra ti playfully, and I blush and say, tongue in cheek, "Maybe"

His driver, Lou, pulls the Range Rover around the curve as we exit the building

Callan and I clio, Callan quietly staring out the , a thoughtful expression on his face

I reach out and take his hand He doesn’t see hi a hand over his face, squeezing aruffly under his breath as he eyes lea over companies used to be "