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“With you, I think I’d be anything you wanted me to be”

“Stop it,” she said, his openness tickling her “You’reme like a fiddle”

“I don’t knohat it is about you, but everything I’ve said is true You’re different, Alexis I don’t knohy and, trust ure it out so I could put the kibosh on it I get it, we are co, but I can’t seem to stop and I don’t want to You turna lot”

What could she say in the face of such brutal honesty? It was a breath of fresh air after everything she’d been through with Riker He was a born liar The words that’d popped from his mouth were always peppered with half truths, a fact she’d only discovered after she’d been thoroughly hu hiuy you are She was blind”

“Sao”

“What is happening between us? This can’t be natural, right?”

“We have insane sexual chereed, equally mystified “I wonder ould’ve happened if we’d met before we both were burned”

“I wouldn’t have been attracted to you”

He did a double take “Coain?”

She soothed his ego “It’s not you It’s me Honestly, what attracted me to Riker was his bad-boy attitude and the fact that he drove a motorcycle I wouldn’t have been attracted to you because you have a good job and you’re a decent guy”

Layton relaxed and laughed “Yeah, well, I knoould’ve looked twice your way You have the kind of breasts I dream about”

Alexis giggled, loving how free he ith co boobs, too?”

“Yeah, but I gotta say, and I’ this because we hooked up, but your breastsdamnthey’re so awesome”