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When I firstin and ue There’d been extraneous factors with the firstthis one as the official introduction He wasn’t like Raize

No one was like Raize

Roman Marakov was a thinker That’s what I meant

He was the type of guy who not only played chess, won at chess, he was the guy who invented the board That’s who Raize’s boss was and after the first three uy also kneas lucky to have who he had working for him The admiration and respect wasn’t to be faked

That helped affirm my decision

We were shaking hands and I released his, just going to lay outAnd Brook—Ashley was trafficked I have a problem with that, too”

His eyes flared and the corner of his mouth twitched “So I’m told”

“Is that a problem?”

More deep a itching now “It’ll be good to have someone like you in the roo forth the best I can”

“I did”

His eyebrows lifted “Hmm?”

“I chose this life” Twice now “Just so you know”

There was a switch in his gaze, so deeper, darker shone there, but he only nodded “I see”

Well, I didn’t

I had no clue why I wanted him to know that, but I did and he knew he did and now I felt an aardness between us, but it was also one that I wanted to be there And again, I had no clue as going on

But he only grinned faintly before extending a hand toward the bar in his office “I’lad that you’ve decided to stay on with us Should we celebrate?”