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His jaw hardened He leaned into the door, chest rising as he absorbed her offense “I’d proe?”

“You didn’t have to do all that other stuff” She folded her ar of being bought off for her sexual favors She had thought they had shared their bodies with each other freely Hers had definitely been offered without expectation of compensation

“I’d promised you that too”

“Well, I didn’t have to accept it, so I didn’t,” she spat out with rancor, hating how cheap he’d made her feel

“You still could have told ,” he bit out His voice was so censorious it made her stiffen “You didn’t have to disappear without a word An email doesn’t take any effort at all”

Taken aback by that, Clair choked out a laugh “Oh, didn’t you get my response to yours?”

His eyebrows slaether “I didn’t email you”

Clair only lifted her eyebroaiting for the penny to drop

With a h his hair and tried to pace across the tiny space of her office He onlyback to her

Clair snapped to attention, aching fro herself in this state of readiness Her pal within the knots of her fists “Why are you here, Aleksy?” It seeed toit This was going to be a setback of epic proportions There would be fresh tears she didn’t want to shed

“I’ht to know “I didn’t knohere else to look, so I came here to ask if they had any contact information on you and they told me you were down the hall I almost had a heart attack”

Intensity radiated off hih he was still keyed up from the discovery