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“You thought I was a little insane, didn’t you?”

“Maybe a touch” She rier and smiled at him

“But now you know”

“I do,” she agreed, taking another sip

“So the issue isn’t really the words they exchanged tonight Theis what happens next What do you think you should do? Be smart here…”

Raine stepped back from the situation asa friend advice in this situation, ould she say? “Sit them down and be completely honest about the fact that I love theht, and that I want theet along today, there’s no toine theether—ever”

Beck shrugged “There’s an i You want another wine?”

She looked down to see that she’d drained the glass and shook her head “I’ve had better wine from a convenience store No offense”

“None taken I’ve had better coffee fro Ready to go?”

When Beck rabbed his hand “One more question”

He settled in his seat again “Shoot”

“Did they have more tasks planned for me?”

“One,” he adrimly “It revolved around trust”

“They wanted ive them my trust?” she clarified

“They wanted a show of it, yes”

So about the way Beck tensed put her on alert “Okay, cough it up What were they going to do?”

He hesitated, looked at his coffee, lifted it, and set it aside with a scowl Then he drew in a deep breath “Tomorrow afternoon, they intended to take you into the playroom and put you entirely in Seth’s hands No options off the table They wanted to see if you trusted theh to extend your trust to someone you didn’t knoell because they asked you to”

That startled Raine “Sex?”