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She shook her head "I don't understand you"

He didn't respond, not wishing to let the conversation slip back into serious waters She picked up her book again, and this ti how e When the score was five and zero, he quirked a s?"

Miranda slowly lowered the book and leveled a deadly gaze in his direction "Excusewords?"

She just stared at hie since you started"

She let out a vocal growl and with great deterlish or Greek?"

"I beg your pardon?"

"If it's the Greek, it ht explain your speed"

Her lips parted

"Or lack thereof," he said with a shrug

"I can read Greek," she bit off

"Yes, and it's a noteworthy achieve the book so tightly, her knuckles were turning white "Thank you," she ground out

But he wasn't done "Uncommon for a fenore him

"Olivia can't read in the Greek," he said conversationally

"Olivia doesn't have a father who does nothing but read in the Greek," she said without looking up She tried to concentrate on the words at the top of the new page, but they didn'tthe previous one She hadn't even started

She tapped a gloved finger against the book as she pretended to read She didn't suppose there was any way she could flip back to the previous page without his noticing It didn't et any reading done while he was staring at her in that heavy-lidded way of his It was deadly, she decided It made her hot and shivery, and it did this sihly irritated with theher, but he was doing a rather good job of it, regardless

"A peculiar talent, that"

Miranda sucked in her lips and looked up at hi your eyes"

She counted to three before responding "Some of us don't have to mouth out the words e read, Turner"

"Touché, Miranda I knew there was still some spark left in you"

Her nails bit into the cushioned seat One , two , three Keep counting Four , five , sixAt this rate she was going to have to go to fifty if she wanted to control her te so?"

Eighteen , nineteen- "What?"

"What are you doing?"

Twenty"You're growing extrerinned "I thought you of all people would appreciate the trait Noere you doing? Your head was bobbing along in a ly, "I was counting in arded her for a ht have said tomy patience"

"No!" he said withto dis that poor book, Miranda We both know you aren't reading it"