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Kyler had texted and called every day; their phone conversations had been long and easy, but he hadn’t asked her out again Wouldn’t even friends-with-benefits hang out? The day after the wedding, things between theht, why hadn’t he asked her out?

By the ti, disappoint herself she had an aht stand shook her world apart, but she couldn’t ignore the pang in her heart

She liked Kyler She wanted friends in Vegas A slow slide of disappointment settled in that he hadn’t reat, but it wasn’t the sa out with someone

Shaking her head to clear the annoyance, she banged her fingers against the keyboard, responding to an e-mail from another laho seemed to be unable to understand that her boss was on his teek honey him she wouldn’t dare contact Aidan to sort out the matter with his client

Lawyers and clients, at times, had no patience

Ella kne to quiet therandfather, who had been a litigation lawyer Regardless that sorated on her last nerve, she loved her job

She was good at it

After she sent off the e-rabbed it and pressed it to her ear “Knight Law, Ella speaking”

“Don’t hang up”

A cold sweat coated her flesh She rose, glancing to theon the telephone, and Ella also noticed four people in the waiting roolad Aidan wasn’t in his office, listening to her talk to Rory “You shouldn’t be calling ritted teeth

“Just hear me out,” Rory said in his rich southern accent “You’re not responding to any of my texts”

“That’s because I don’t want to talk to you” She lowered her voice, keeping the conversation private “I’m at work, Rory” The second the words left herof which, how did you find out where I work?”

“I have my ways” was Rory’s dry reply

She could alured it wouldn’t be so difficult for Rory to find her He knew she had as, and Rory had friends on the Savannah police force that could locate her if he asked Maybe finding out her new employment wasn’t so hard at all Perhaps he even knehere she lived

Her hand trembled around the phone “I don’t want to talk to you Please just move on with your life I have”