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She tucked her hands into the pockets of the long duster-style sweater she wore over her jeans and tee, pacing the rooht aloud

“I can crash with Christi for a while, but I’ll need to get a new apartment, obviously And a side job since none of the internships pay as h aside for later”

“Later?”

“Yeah, after the internship is done, I’d like enough to go out on my own That takes money”

“You figure on taking a part-ti to do?”

“Well, I’d planned on dancing, but I’ to work out Flo and Roberto will give ood reference, but Rudy knows a lot of people, and he’s big on trash talk” Lara shrugged, trying to shake off the little voice chiding her for once again letting a guy ued She’d just taken a little vacation in sexual nirvana, fallen in love and had a great tiie She’d always planned on leaving that job, that apartment, eventually

“Huh Well, I’d planned to wait, tell you this later, but it looks like this is the time”

“Tell me what?” Nerves jumped into Lara’s sto away

“You need a job, I’ve got you covered”

“You gotto chalk up losing her spot on the chorus line and her apart that for her own good But she had a job lined up One she’d worked damned hard for

“I tugged a few different lines so you could have some options” He smiled expectantly

Lara tried to smile back, but her lips didn’t want to move

“I know you want to do security stuff, and I’ve talked to Lucas He’s getting me some names of companies down here that you can apply with” He paused as if waiting for her to gush her gratitude Lara crossed her arged

“There are other options, too I figure with your skills, you could come on as civilian personnel You knoork on the base I’ve got the paperwork for you, everything you need”

Blindsided—but not knohy since this hat guys always did—Lara pressed her fingers to her temple She tried to curb her auto it because he wanted theesture with not a lot of clear thinking behind it

Maybe once she reminded him that she’d already put in two years to earn a top internship and that inputting data as a Navy secretary wasn’t in her plans, they could get to the whipped cream