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He just needed sorimly, to work the jealous kinks out of his system

And for all intents and purposes, it was a good plan, if only it weren’t too easy to misconstrue The words itself, made worse by the coldness of Acheron’s tone, had Pippi in shock To her ears, it had sounded veryfor theined he could be so selfish and i that Pippi had an urge to throw up, realizing just what kind of iven liberties to her body

“You knohat?” Pippi found herself gripping her phone so tightly it was a wonder the device still hadn’t shattered “You can have all the space you need,” she heard herself say, “and you don’t even have to get back to me after”

Stunned at the way Pippi had suddenly hung up, it took Acheron several ravely she had misunderstood his words

FUCK

His anger evaporated in an instant, and all thoughts of otten At thatPippi say ‘drop dead’ to his face would’ve been enough All he wanted was the assurance that his foolish blunder hadn’t cost hiirl in his life

Desperation nipped at his heels as he redialed Pippi’s nuht to voiceher He had the ruinous urge to throw soainst the wall, followed by an equally ill-advised urge to ht into Evans’ office and leave her no choice but to face him

But if he did that, Pippi would only have more reason to despise him – and transfer her affections to someone else

PippiEvans as harmless, but Acheron had seen the way the otherher like soht into the lion’s den

While Evans’ track record oht be a lot less tarnished than Acheron’s, it didn’t mean the man was a saint, and Acheron was damn certain the asshole wouldn’t hesitate to pounce on Pippi the first chance he got

“Goddammit”