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I also needed to calht up Portia, and then slinked off into the other room to take her call To be honest, my brain actually stuttered hts to explain it away He’d only been with one person, and married to her for over a decade Of course it would be weird, right?

Pippa met me in the hall ide eyes that scannedme her cup of coffee

"That bad?" I asked

"Have you seen yourself?"

"Well, that answers that," I said, continuing on to our shared desk and setting down the coffee "Thanks for this"

Pippa nodded and took the chair oppositeokay?"

I nodded as I slipped out of ’s fine" I looked up to see theit up, I punched inher, "It’s not even nine and today has done a lot I just had aout of a bad sitco as I hung up the phone "Anthony wants to see et in Shit Why is he here so early?"

"It can’t be that bad I saw the en you worked up went off without a hitch He probably just realized it’s still raining and hasn’t seen you in that top before" She grinned and rolled her eyes "Hoping for a little wet T-shirt action, if you knohat Idown intoand e to clean up a little and then get this over with"

"Go get ’e in through Anthony’s door

He’d been arranging so near the bookcase, and turned to look at me "Miss Miller, yes Come in"

Miss Miller?

I stepped inside the office and he added, "Close the door, please"