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“Because there’s no shortage of randouess” Barf

“You’re determined to fill my mouth ords, aren’t you?”

And you’re deter else

“Besides,” he continues, his tone more conciliatory, “you’re not some random woman I followed out into the cold” At the ain “It’s you I’m interested in Give me your number,” he coaxes, “I won’t bite”

“Not unless I want you to, right?”

“The rule is, not unless you bite me first”

“Unreal,” I in to chatter I aze flicks down to his hand, then up to his face, all traces of levity gone I’m cold, and now I’m bored, and I just want him to leave me alone

“I don’t have my phone on me”

“I don’t re as prickly as your namesake last time wea business card into my hand “Take it” For a ers over it and then his fingers over mine “Now you have my number”

“And the ball is now in my court?”

“Probably Though I also knohere you work now” For eo

“Because that didn’t sound like a threat”

“That’s just because there just happens to be a very fine line between a threat and a promise,” he answers s ain “A very fine line”

If this is the part where he kisses ive in Maybe I’ll let this very good-looking and confident o I mean, he’s obviously interested inup But what’s ue so far down his throat, he’ll never bother ain Because my happiness shouldn’t depend on a man

Especially one I’m not interested in

I tiltto let fate decide And she does Pretty spectacularly

“Griffin”

As a deep baritone sounds through the darkness, my stomach drops to my feet One word and I know instinctively who this is I don’t knohere to look, where to run, and seriously consider cli the door shut Because Iat Alexander, but I know I just heard him