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“Thanks,” he grumbles

“Where does she think you’re going tomorrow?”

“A car auction in Georgia,” he says

“And you get back when?”

“Friday”

I can ith this “Okay, that est you butter her up with a really nice, romantic dinner Take her out, treat her to flowers and so?”

“Her place for now,” he ad her to my apartment here at Jameson”

“Okay, you go back to her place, sit her down, and tell her you’ve been hiding so from her, and you need to come clean”

“A her the truth, truth?”

I roll my eyes “I don’t even knohat thather the absolute truth Don’t hold a single thing back, including your idiotic reasoning for doing it But then you also tell her the truth about how you feel about her, and you want to be married to her because you love her”

“She’ll hate me,” he asserts

“Then if she does, she’s nota du she is, then she’s going to be pissed, but she’s going to forgive you”

“You think so?” he asks hopefully

I give him what I hope is a confident smile “Hey… bonus is you actually have a really cool and sexy job My theory is if she loves you as a car salesent”

Cage laughs, finally straightening in his chair Confidence filters back in his expression for aas we don’t get sent to Colombia”

“Coloht be on the horizon Kynan hasn’t said anything about it tonewish I usually help in the planning stages

“Yeah, soroup Ransoo in for the transfer when it’s all arranged But that could happen tomorrow or teeks from now You never knoith those nut jobs At any rate, Kynan just put the final group of us together today Malik’s going to be joining us, too I’ back in the saddle”

My entire frah enerally wary about him and potential future missions, but now that one could be on the i in a way as to tellput in danger again