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She giggles flirtatiously “I just cas on display—”

“Pretty things like the Whistler necklace and earrings, specifically?”

She freezes, sing thickly, and I can see her pulse beat quickly in the hollow of her neck

Fuck

The second I saw her when I stepped in here a second ago, I kneas in trouble It was instant, and looking at her now, it’s like I see the whole thing play out in the blink of an eye I see her, and I know she’s going to be my ruin

My jaw clenches, and I can feelto a dull roar in my ears as my eyes lock on her

Daeous

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I look at her and I know she could be wearing a goddaeous women I’ve ever seen

I can feelets the beast inside of ainst rinding and ht on her

Oh, she’s going to be trouble all right And it’s not just that the sight of her has hs It’s not just that I can i my lips to hers like a raw, primal need to lay my claim on her

…It’s that considering what’s at stake and what I’ve planned for the night, this is one twist I never saw co

I’ve planned it all out I’ve spent a year insertingto be just another white-collar asshole like the rest of them I’ve put the time in I put off other, easier, faster jobs, because the payout for this one was going tolife, for the rest ofbad

Yeah, I’ve put up with all the insufferable assholes working at Cobalt I’ve sedat the top, Martin McCue—enough so, in fact, that he’s invited ” dinners at his Ha employees and some of his family On Valentine’s Day, for whatever asinine reason