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Sutton nods, her eyes glea with excitement “It’s all accurate, and while ouldn’t use their material verbatiot all of the necessary materials we can convert over that have been produced by our crisis center ”

“What do you want my role to be?”

“Well, you are the spokesperson, so most of your ill co to schools and events, but I’d still love to have your input while I put the prograether As I draft the materials, I could forward them to you for review, and we’ll need you to do some photo shoots for the brochures and pa ”

“Will you go out to dinner without of my mouth so suddenly, I have no clue where they came from Clearly my subconscious decided to overtake my sensibility and make itself known

Sutton’s eyes go round and her lips part in surprise Fuck…I’m completely surprised myself that I just asked that

“As in a date?” she asks carefully “Or to work on this program further?”

“As in a date,” I tell her while looking her levelly in the eye “Of course, we can talkyou out on a date ”

Sutton’s eyes fall to the table and she fiddles nervously with her fork She sucks her bottom lip in between her teeth and her eyebrows scrunch with consternation I wait patiently for her to answer me

When she looks back up, she doesn’t surprisethat line? The one that splits the professional from the personal?”

“I’ve never given much of a fk about labels and lines, Sutton I do what I want, and I very much want to see you on a personal level If you have qual a line that’s important to you, I respect that and I won’t try to talk you out of it ”

She glances back down at the table for just a moment, then her eyes come back up and look at me with a hint of mischief “What if I want you to talk me out of it?”

My lips quirk uphiledo you think you’ll need?”

Sutton brings her index finger up and taps it against her lips while considering ht take a good effort on your part ”

She’s teasing the fk out ofof my own, she needs a quick lesson in the fact that Alex Crossoes in for the kill pretty quickly

Standing up from the booth, a quick step puts me over on her side With no hesitation I bend over and slip htly toward asp of surprise coe

Game on

I anglemy mouth to hers My kiss is confidently persuasive and she opens up toher just a ainst each other’s in a whisper, then I pull back and release her

Standing up, I look down at her and say, “Convinced?”