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“A baby isn’t a puppy,” she said

He shrugged “It doesn’t matter to me for the reason previously stated”

She rolled her eyes and pushed the button on the elevator “Right Well I hope Ana and I don’t disturb you too much e live in your home, as you don’t want a wife or a child”

“It’s a large house,” he said, his words carrying a stiff undertone, as if he didn’t believe it would be large enough

The doors to the elevator slid open and they both stepped inside She’d never noticed how s in thehter Because he filled the space he was in so absolutely

It wasn’t just because he ell over six feet tall and broad, either It was his charisy that radiated from him He was so unobtainable, so uninterested in as happening around hirab his attention Made you want to be in his sphere To make him seem interested To make him smile

To h

At least she did, but she was good at that Making people laugh and s tension with antics and jokes And she had, apparently, not learned her lesson about unobtainable men

She nearly opened her mouth to make one when her eyes locked with his and the breath leached from her body

His dark eyes roa in every inch of her And she was reht

What else will you teach me to like?

Oh, no, no, no She wasn’t going there She never had before, no reason to start now