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Holy shit

She was in such trouble She should stay far away from him He was kryptonite Not that she had any special powers She guessed that was the crux of the problele ht want to play with her for a bit but, it would never go beyond that He’d made that clear

Was she really considering doing this? Was she going to take the job? Agree to his rules? She could do that Follow the rules, get along with Renard, do her job, how hard could it be?

She rolled over with a sigh She felt bad about letting Peggy down, though The other woood to her Maybe she could work out a way to continue supplying her with pies

But no matter how bad she felt or how nervous she was, she couldn’t say no to his job offer He was offering her a way to keep her head above water The rest of it, well, she wasn’t so sure that was a good idea In fact, she kneasn’t She’d just have to try and keep her distance fros professional She’d keep her head down, do her job and not make waves This could be the break she needed and she wasn’t going to fuck it up

Satisfaction filled him as Aspen’s words sunk in

She was agreeing to his offer Brave girl He’d had his doubts HisThen he’d have to chase her Which would have stirred the part of him he wasn’t certain she was ready for

“I’ll send some movers over”

“I don’t need movers I don’t have much In fact, I think I still have the boxes out in Mr Peterson’s barn froot and load it in the car and we’ll be at your place this afternoon Are you sure you really want to have us in your guest house? I can stay here until I find so closer to town”

“Aspen, you are uest house End of story I wouldn’t offer it if I didn’t want you there And I don’t want any uments about it, understand?”

“I wasn’t arguing, justsure it’s what you want”

“Do I seem like the type of man who doesn’t knohat he wants?”

There was silence on the other end

“All right, I’ll stop asking Sorry”

He raised his eyebrows As far as apologies went it didn’t sound terribly sincere, but he decided to cut her so what he wanted