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It s, somehow

And damn sexy

Because I was coue-tied (ith the voice and the scent), I looked over at Stanley He nodded reassuringly like, Dude’s okay

Which was good I trust Stanley If he gets a good read off of somebody, I accept his intuition

“M-Mr Brooks?” I stuttered as my hand clasped his

Ohhhhhh God

His skin was so war, but unlike a lot of jerks who try to push women (and other men) around, he didn’t try to crush

I melted a little bit more

“Good to put a face to the voice,” he said as he hung onto er than was absolutely necessary (I didn’t mind Not at all)

“Yes,” I agreed, because that was all I could think to say at the moment

Then he dropped ot down to business “Okay Call your boss for me”

The unpleasant prospect of having Klaus chew me out over the phone pumped a shot of adrenaline into my syste through my veins

“Ohhhh… I don’t really know if – ”

“Relax, Lily, you’ll talk to him first, and it’ll be on your phone, so I won’t even see the nu deck yet, is he?” Connor smiled

And, no, the truth was that he probably wasn’t

I sighed, pulled my cell phone out of my little black purse, and hit ‘KLAUS’ on my contacts list

This was not going to go well

But how could I say ‘no’ to as actually a pretty reasonable request?

And, evenat me?

“What,” Klaus’s perpetually pissed-off voice answered

“Um… I have Mr Brooks here, and he’s pretty insistent about – ”

“WHAT THE HELL?! What part of your brain shut dohen I left, Lily?!”

And then he went off on a mini-tirade of profanity and insults that orse than usual