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Of course you’re welcome to crash at my place until you have a new apt and/or job

See you next week—don’t do anything I wouldn’t do

Christi

LARA REREAD THE eer on the laptop keys, but still didn’t respond

Did she have the best luck?

Or the worst?

She definitely had a pattern: find hot guy, have a wild affair, turn her life upside down Get screwed over and left alone

Not that she figured Do to screw her over and leave Just because every other guy she’d been involved with had, that didn’t reat guy She s in the past But she had to have faith that she wasn’t stupid enough to actually fall in love with a guy that wrong Was she?

Lara glanced at the bed, ih her ether They had a lot in common, from fitness habits to favorite food to taste in music

And he accepted her No judg a dancer or her drea a security tech

Shaking off the weird

Since she wasn’t sure when, exactly, she’d be back in Reno, she’d answer it after she talked to Dominic

Not about their relationship, of course At least, not out loud She wasn’t that needy Nope, she just needed to find out when he was tapping Phillip for the money he said he’d owe her so she could cover her trip home

Shaking off the feeling that she’d just put a mental deadline on her time with Dominic, Lara tapped the keys to open the final project she’d turned in thatshe still had it to work on

She looked around the roo a distraction

Before she had to look very far, she heard the hotel roorinned

Yay Distraction was here

She glanced down at her jeans and light sweater, wishing she was dressed a little sexier But hey, she could be naked in ten seconds flat, and that was sexy enough

“Hi,” she greeted when Doh the bedrooone shy? “I thought you’d be tied up until evening”

“I snagged soot a surprise for you”

Delighted, Lara sotten around to telling her what the surprise was yesterday First she’d distracted him, then he’d distracted her Then, thankfully, he’d been called on duty last night, so they’d had to postpone his little friendly get-together with his buddies

Her sreet was supposed to be postponed to next week It couldn’t be his surprise, could it?

“Does the surprise involve whipped cream or strawberry jelly licked off each other’s bodies?” she teased, figuring it never hurt to lay the groundwork in case she needed a little distraction

Besides, she loved the ie it invoked