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Now she wasn’t so sure he’d been wrong

In contrast, Gage had flowed into her life effortlessly As if he’d always been there and it was easy and right As if they’d picked up where they’d left off She’d been holding her breath for alain And noas

She stared at hi him for the first time

She’d never gotten over Gage Branson and chalked it up to having endured such a badly broken heart But that wasn’t it at all She’d never gotten over him because she was still in love with him

She shut her eyes for a beat That was the opposite of a good thing And this was a really bad tiht be involved in the leak Hell, he ht have even orchestrated it and at this rate, she’d never find out If he flat out denied involvement, she’d never believe him He’d proven he couldn’t be trusted personally, so as to say he could be trusted professionally? She would not give hiain

Even if he got down on one knee and proposed, which would happen when monkeys learned to pilot a stealth bomber, she’d say no Her own self-preservation overrode everything

“I did soh them?” she asked after she cleared the emotion from her throat Not only was it a horrible tis for him, it would be a disaster to tip him off God knehat he’d do with it Twist it around and say she owed hi

He glanced at her, ball in hand, as Arwen barked to show her displeasure at the interruption He threw it to the far end of Cass’s property, a good hundred yards, andelse he did

“Sure We’ve got all day and ood use of it”

That was her deadline to soh her eet hiood and move on

“I’ for fortification “When I talked to you about planting false inforital forensics works How did that come about?”

The best way to get him out of her system was to prove his involvement in the leak Then she wouldn’t have to remind herself he wasn’t trustworthy Because he’d be in jail Her heart squeezed Surely that wasn’t going to be the result of all this

But even if it wasn’t, Gage’s presence in her life was still because of the for in love with her He was only here to squash his competition