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He gave ht the ansas obvious "Well, um, there’s how he looks at you There’s how you look at him There’s the fact that there’s that ets us all horny I ether"

"Thanks for the heads-up about the rumour," I said simply, still aloof

"Well? Do you wish to confirm or deny these rumours?"

"You knohat? No corasp the fact that I’m your superior, not your equal, not your rinned He’d taken that as a denial, by the looks of things There was the smallest space between us now I had to question why I was allowing hiet so close It wasn’t like I had any intention of kissing him But, contrary to what he believed, I wasn’t nervous around hias He just wanted to have a laugh

"Okay," he said "But like I’ve said, we’re on our own ti to another"

"What does this single person want?"

He pursed his lips for a second "Huess what I want is to knoe’re on our own tile status"

His cuteness and smooth voice and the way that he hadn’t come across all corny and pushy almost made me consider it But I had plenty of reasons not to "Mates is the best I can do And by mates, I mean friends"

Max nodded but didn’t lose his s toive up easy"

"I’et," I told him as he hopped out the pool "Mates, that’s it"

"I know you’re not playing But babe, that just e You’ve no idea how ht not havestyle"

I had a feeling that he didn’t walk aith va I’d take a sneaky look at his arse as he strutted off I didn’t look I’d already gotten a good look at it at the try-out It was a nice behind if ever there was one Biteable

You’ve just saved his life by saying no, I heard in my head Jared

My head immediately snapped up to look at his balcony He wasn’t out, but I could see him at theSeconds later he was out of view, but I’d saw his expression long enough to notice that he was absolutely livid withdesperately to get some sleep

After my day’s sleep in the comfiest bed ever, I actually didn’t feel so bad Yeah, I still felt crappy over everything that had happened with Jared And I still had ger probleht be attacked soon and the squad had to be prepared So although I was again a little teht about trying to teleport to the office but iainst it God knohere I’d end up It was odd Usually when I absorbed someone’s power I could handle it just as easy as I handled y and channel it; that was all you needed in order to control and effectively use a power But I couldn’t see Thankfully it would fade as soon as I used up all of the energy that Jared had passed on to me