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She held out her hand for ood friends of mine And Amanda is my sister-in-law I saw you at Daisy May’s party, but I had just walked inside when you were defending Krit and then leaving"

I shook her hand and felt a small little bubble of exciteh connections in town that people were starting to actually knoho I was? The idea that I was fitting in for the first ti

"It’s nice to et toFriendship with Krit is a learn-as-you-go thing," I explained

She studied me for a ine," she replied

The urge to defend hireeing withto lunch?" she asked "I nor Eli with a sitter too long, but today his daddy is hoether, and I glanced down at my phone "I have to be at work in twenty minutes It’s a ten-minute drive, so I can’t today I would like to soh," I told her She re et to know me

"I’ll see if Marcus can stay home one day next week Or better yet, you can corilled cheeses with

Eli had to be her son She didn’t look old enough to be a mom I started to respond but the words fell ahen ainst lasses covering his blue eyes

"Oh, looks like you got a visitor," Low said

Krit dropped his arms, and I stood there and watched as he s were in a pair of faded jeans, but hisfit as he walked This hat a swagger looked like It was soirls stopped and watched I couldn’t even get mad at them He was impossible not to look at

Krit’s eyes stayed onme want toover at her with a smile Then he turned back to me "Hey, love"

He called females love I had heard him do it before, and he had calledabout the way he said it to me now, the way his voice dropped when it curled around the word,

"Hey," I replied, knowing that I was staring up at him like I was coh I was

"It was niceyou, Blythe We’ll do that lunch next week I’ll see you later," Low said, re me that she was still there

I jerked myself out of the Krit haze I was under, and turned back to her "Oh, yes, I look forward to it And it was nice rin was one that was both pleased and knowing She wasn’t s for Krit It made me like her even more

"See you, Krit," Low called out

He nodded at her briefly then looked back at me "Low’s in your class?"

"Yeah," I replied a little too breathlessly

"She’d be a good friend," he told me, then leaned down and pressed his lips tohim taste and nibble ue and the bar in it that excited rab his head and force him back down

"Missed you when I woke up You should’ve woken hty s onto "You were sleeping so sweet I wasn’tthat up"

He cocked his pierced eyebroeet?"

He didn’t like being called sweet Well, too bad He eet Especially right now, co "Yes, very sweet"

"I think I lose badass points for sleeping sweet I need to fix that," he said, then bent down and kissed ain "But first I want to take you back home and keep you locked up inmy apartment home a lot now Not my home, just home And he wanted to spend the day with e ca on?