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Tiet to work

“I thought you ht want this” Thea holds out a cup of coffee from one of our favorite places across the street “You left so early I figured you forgot to get any” She shrugs like it’s no big deal

I sht, I did forget”

She laughs and the twinkling sound washes overyou need me to do?”

I set the coffee aside and finally look at her—and fuckand a loose pink blouse Her light-brown hair hangs in waves past her shoulders and I reging and—

“Xander?” she prompts with a raised brow, and I nearly choke when I realize I was basically having a full on fantasy while she stared at me

Only, it wasn’t a fantasy It was real And I wanted it to happen again

I clear my throat “Um, yeah, here—I need you to run these down to Sherry” I thrust a stack of papers that were lying on the side ofhands

She looks from the papers to me “Are you okay?”

“Yeah” And of course,voice cracks Traitor

She eyesthe roo on the floor

I let out a pent-up breath

Day one of working together post-e so far is not a success

Today o down in the record books as the most aard of my entire life

Xander and I barely spoke, and e did, it was stilted and not at all like us I can’t for the life ofon in his head It was only this ht he ive hiet this ever happened? I can’t i his e since oke up yesterday , but who knows?