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But it hurt to be ot a coat, but it didn’ta surge of relief across the cold air
Peyton’s rand as the one she lived in, just of a different style His fales and fun rooms inside--not that she was all that familiar with the place
As she approached the front door, it was opened by a butler ore the saen at her house
"Mistress, welcome Master Peyton is up in his room He requests that you wait in the library for his arrival"
"But of course," she said as she followed along into a huge room filled with leather-bound volumes, heavy, medieval furniture, and enormous brass chandeliers
With all the tapestries and the oil paintings and the way footsteps echoed on the gray slate floor, it was like so out of Harry Potter, just sans the owls and the wizard wands
How anyone felt at holymera cared more about impressions than co to drink?" the butler asked her
"No, thank you"
"My pleasure" The butler bowed low and backed out of the roo"
Before she could even pick a spot to sit, her phone went off, and she answered it on the first ring with a frown "Peyton? I’m downstairs What? Ah … yeah, no, it’s fine I don’t care… Sure Where …? Okay, right"
Ending the call, Elise went across to a second set of oak doors and slipped out Tracking the hallways through the back of the house, she found the pantry, got the bag of Doritos her cousin had asked for, and hurried up the staff stairs to the second floor After ducking into a laundry roo out his door, one ar free as he waved at her "Hey, girl!"
He had no shirt on, satin PJ botto of a microwave oven
Great Just what she’d had in mind, damn it
"Peyton," she muttered as she came up to him "How drunk are you?"
"Very And stoned And wait … I think I did soo? But the buzz has mostly worn off"
"Well, here is your sodiulared at hi to talk"
"And how’s that going to happen You’re slurring your speech soFrench Or is it Italian?"
"I’, you lass"
"Co to be easy forher head, she crossed her ar his suite "You shouldn’t need to be intoxicated to talk about things"
"That and a bag of chips will get you lunch"