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“OK, Josh There’s soht now This isn’t about work, is it? Are you, I don’t know, trying to leverage what happened between us to get some insider info on the place before you start? Because I’ll let you know right now, I don’t play those kinds of games”

At first he did this kind of shocked and hurt thing, as if he couldn’t believe that I’d even suggest such a thing But thankfully, he see with a du to say next

“I have so that I don’t quite kno to say”

I cockedto talk about “us”? Was he going to tell s for me since we’d last seen each other? It was alain, we’d admitted our mutual crushes for each other…

My heart raced

“What is it?”

“You remember e did the last timeeach other?”

Ih eous intensity he’d made when he’d come…it was all as clear as the day it’d happened But what did he want to say about it?

“I…do And I re pretty intense”

He appeared confused, tilting his head in a way that reeous puppy, if there were such a thing, but a puppy nonetheless Almost cute, really

“Oh!” His voice was heavy with surprise, his eyes going wide “You mean…that”

Noas my turn to be confused “You don’t? Then what on earth are you talking about?”

“I —that was very memorable”

“Glad to hear you think so”

“But no, I was talking about the other thing, the thing that got us talking in the first place The…fake thing”

He reached forward and touched h ht away embarrassment took hold

“Sorry, wasn’t expecting you to do that”

“No worries” His s about now, right? The thing with you pretending to be my fiancée”

However confused I was before, noas even more pronounced “Yeah, of course That plan was totally insane, by the way”