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“Do you always decide what other people should want?” Banks asked The guy didn’t sound mad, just faintly curious

“When I l—care about someone, I try to make them happy,” Doue No L words here Just a habitual response to an argument he’d had plenty of times in the past, usually with his sister When that la in his belly, he changed topics

“She’s not unreasonable,” Doet her back in here, she’ll listen”

“You know her better than I do” Banks’s lips twitched “I never observed a tendency toward reason and a up with her, but it has been a few years”

Yanking the door open, Do jokes?”

He hadn’t even realized Banks had a sense of hulanced toward the ondering if ice was on its way fro over

He shook his head, giving Banks another dark look before turning to go after Lara

“A word of advice,” Banks said softly

Impatient, brows arched, Dominic looked back

“Lara’s right We’re not what you’d call fao after her, do so carefully You hurt ht have to take steps”

“Jokes and threats?” Do “You two really are alike”

His s its doors wide-open and no Lara Scowling, he stared at the empty space and considered the options

Was Banks right? When he found Lara, was she going to be reasonable? History didn’t lend itself to that idea She was thewoman he’d ever known, but she was also the most difficult He’d only had a woman run from hih to give a guy a complex

Or tempt him to look elsewhere

TIRED OF WAITING for the elevator, Lara had hit the stairwell She figured stohts of stairs was better than beating her laptop against the elevator wall

What the hell rong with her?

If a guy wasn’t loser, he was a liar If he wasn’t a liar, he was a char control freak with commitment issues and sexy dimples

Lara had to stop at the last landing to catch her breath and wipe her face She’d be da to see evidence of her heartbreak A quick dash of her palulps of air and she was ready to go again

She slowly made her way down the last couple of dozen steps, fiercely holding all negative thoughts at bay

So she didn’t have any money

She’d find a bank, pull the rest of her savings to get her home

So she didn’t have a home