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I give her a wry smile “You’re ever the romantic, Leonie Aren’t you?”

“I just want you to be happy, Declan,” she counters pointedly “I don’t want you to sabotage yourself in finding that happiness”

In a rare display of genuine affection, because those moments strike me few and far between, I reach across the table and holdher wrinkled, age-spotted one in htly and hold tight “I aht now, I’ But I do love you for worrying about me in that way I know I can always count on you to worry overI’ll always treasure”

Her eyes get ith e it go It’s been a good night for sure I got to spend quality tireement from Bailey that she’ll attend The Wicked Horse with ht

Yes, I’ht now

CHAPTER 14

Bailey

My nerves are stretched to capacity, the endings buzzing as if electrified While I h the lobby of the Onyx Casino toward the elevator that will take led emotions inside

This is it

The night that Declan and I will coether

Physically

Carnally

Without restraint or judgment

It did not help that Declan wasn’t in the office today He had sent an e to work from his personal suite, and for a tihts But one of the other women in the secretarial pool said that he often worked from his place on the top floor, or at least he had before I had started my position They all chattered that he probably had been working more in his office to train me properly in my job, but now that I had been here for a feeeks, he felt he could work remotely