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When Erica caile too She looked shaky, and she kept touching her forehead like she had a headache

“How are you feeling?” I asked when she came into my office

“Like shit,” Erica confessed with a grin “It orth it, though”

I laughed and agreed

Erica and I carried on with business as usual By lunchtime, I realized I hadn’t seen Shane around I went on the hunt for him and found him in his office, his feet up on the desk, head tipped back, and his eyes closed

“You look like shit,” I said

“I’,” Shane admitted “It’s that moment a thirty-year-old body doesn’t bounce back as well as a twenty-nine-year-old body”

“Pussy,” I said with a chuckle “I drank just as much as you did, and I’m older than you If I can do it, you should too”

Shane peeked at ard s”

I laughed, shakingto be a whiny bitch then too?”

“Whatcha gonna do?” Shane said with a shrug

I sighed “Go home, Shane”

He opened both his eyes and looked at me with a hopeful face “Really?”

“Yeah, get out of here I can’t do an investorslike a baby I need you on top of your gaht now you’re benched”

“Football analogy Cute,” Shane said, packing up his stuff “You just want to get ain”

“Fuck you,” I said with a grin It wasn’t that he was right, but the idea sounded good Of course, that wasn’t going to happen We had already played with fire the first time We couldn’t tempt fate twice

Erica could handle thewith me She was better at her job than any EA I’d had before, and it was part of her job description to step in for either of us if it was necessary After last night, I would have to concentrate on not staring at her in the e