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“You have so you, Brysen?”

Her teeth dug harder into her lip “I don’t know I got a weird text after the party from a number I didn’t know, and then Ramon, the bartender who just savedaround the restaurant duringhen I’ve turned down a date or two, but generally only when they don’t get the hint It could all be coincidental, but after tonight, I just don’t knohat to think”

We got to the garage and I used the keypad to get the gates to swing open As soon as the big ed shut behind us, she finally relaxed I pulled the car into the bay and shut the door It was insulating, like being in the heart of a big iron-and-steel box, and when I walked around the car to help her to her feet, I had to er and confusion her words had churned up infear in general, but considering it was her, and so about her was firmly entrenched under my skin, all of it made me see red

She gave ood hand and I pulled her to her feet We were chest to chest, her eyes glily, and it was all I could do not to bend down and pull that gnawed-on lower lip into my ownreally hard that she didn’t likehard andscent

“Let’s go get the rocks out of your knee and arm before they cause you more problems than you already have”

She nodded jerkily and took uide her up to the loft I could feel her palainst my own

“By the way, did you save my laptop?”

With all the draotten all about the reason I aiting for her in the parking lot in the first place

“No It was DOA, but I did get most of your Math Theory shit onto a new hard drive You’re right; it’s an easy class and you shouldn’t be failing it”

She ive her a tour of the place since everything was really in one roolance I took her right to the tiny bathroom and pushed open the door

“Great And the good news keeps on co hard at the center of my chest