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More than flattered, she let him pull her down the hall…away fro?”

“It’s a surprise” He pulled her to his side, draping a heavy arainst hers like it was oing to get in trouble?”

He stopped, turning her in his arms They were almost chest to chest, his arm still around her shoulders “Questions, questions, Bethany Trust et in trouble with me”

She arched a brow “Because of your charrinned

Dawson continued on and she ith hiht and the school called her Mandatory pregnancy tests were in her future She glanced at Dawson and decided it orth it

As they went out the back doors, she expected an alar at breakneck speed When that didn’t happen and their feet hit paveo of her hand, picking up the pace as he dug his keys out of his pocket “Where I want to take you is two blocks down We can drive if you want” He glanced over his shoulder, his eyes starting at the top of her head and drifting all the way to her toes

Geez, when he looked at her like that, did he expect her to be able to communicate? She was her, as if he knehat he was doing to her “It’s kind of too cold for you”

“What about you?”

He faced the front, flipping those keys around “I’h”

She smiled at his back “It is kind of co—” Her words ended in a startled shriek as her foot hit a thick patch of ice that hadn’t thawed Before she knew it, her aroing to happen

In those teeny, tiny seconds, she’d resigned herself to cracking her skull wide open in front of Dawson An ambulance would need to be called Morounded, with a concussion Or worse