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"Is he here?" He cupped my face and searched my eyes

"Who?"

"Mark"

"Yes Wait, how did you know?"

"Forget about that, let’s get you out of here" He grabbed my hand and turned to leave

"No, I can’t" I pulled hietting you away frooodbye To Daniel"

He frowned

"He’s et to know each other I don’t want to throw this all away" We’d never have anything close to a norhter connection, but I’d only just found hiain now, so soon

"Fine," he relented "Introduce us and we’ll leave"

"Be good," I ordered, before guiding him into the main room where the family of three waited for our return

As soon as we entered, his gaze darted to Mark His posture changed and the tension seehtened o postal

"Daniel, Margo, Mark This is Blake" I tucked, and I still felt an inkling of anticipation hoping Daniel would approve He’d seemed to take pride in my achievements earlier Certainly he’d approve of Blake

"Blake Landon You’re with Angelcom, correct?" Daniel rose and shook Blake’s hand

"Correct I believe you negotiate ht It’s a s between us and then down at Blake’s fingers interlaced with mine His face froze and he looked back to ripped him in that moment

He knew that Blake knew I could read his face like a book Our e in circles he wasn’t anticipating

Margo juave Blake an air kiss on the cheek "Blake, let et you a plate Please, sit down and join us"

"Actually, there’s a situation that ca on Unfortunately, it’s imperative that I head back so we can resolve it But thank you so o pouted a little I could tell she was looking forward to getting to know Blake