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I took a deep breath "You know, considering that we haven’t gone on our actual date yet, we sure have talked about it a lot"

"I don’t know Seeht actually be date nuetting to know you any way I can Now, back to the question"

"Daly from his admission

"C’mon" He raised one eyebrow and flashed that slow smile that I was a sucker for

"I orried that you were only taking me on a date out of a sense of chivalry" I bit ht what?" He reached out and tucked so you out to appease uilt?"

I didn’t respond, just " He set his fork down and I knew he uilty about what happened that night In fact, leaving you that night was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done"

"Then why did you?" The shaht rushed back and I leaned a little further away from him

"Cathy, you deserve ht stand or a quick tumble in the sheets" His eyes narrowed and his voice dropped an octave "You deserve to have it all--to experience it all One step at a ti touches, the almosts but not quite And then I want tooff the list I want you ready and willing, beggingwas halfway to hts of how hesyllable I could squeeze out of my lips

"And most importantly, I want you to decide that you want ht reasons" He paused "That you want me as much as I want you All of you, not just your body"

"I--I didn’t think that would be an option for irl "That’s why I thought a one-night stand would be the way to go"

"I’irls don’t use that very tactic, but wouldn’t you rather it be with someone you like? You could decide you hate ret it and I don’t want that" One of his eyebrows rose as his eyes traveled over , but not for you to hatestarted," he replied His srew and I looked down at my makeshift plate

"Okay, so this is our second date then?" I shookmy food in my mouth "This is a pretty weird conversation, don’t you think?"

"Nah I’m sure there have been weirder ones"

"Like what?"

"Killing zombies, for one"