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“Not by choice,” she replied finally “The hotel was booked, so he took the couch”

“Uh huh”

Jere He was always very good at taking things in His sense of detail was alard

“So you guys a thing?” he asked casually “Or…”

“Save it,” snapped Kara

“Because I know you two once—”

“That was a thousand years ago” She had the urge to put her hands on her hips, but realized it would only appear defensive Especially to Jeremy

He shrugged “Not my business anyway,” he said

“No, it’s really not”

“It’s not like I—”

“Believe ed Xiomara to come here alone She insisted I take him Hell, I didn’t even know you were here”

“She did,” said Jeremy

“Obviously And obviously she thought fit not to tell us” Kara gru ‘fuck you Kara’ to add onto all the other ‘fuck yous’ over the years She’s probably back at the Blackstone right now, laughing her ass off”

Jeremy chuckled “Not probably Definitely”

“The point is, I wanted this assignment all to myself,” said Kara She tried not to appear nervous as he picked up one of the pillows “Now can we get on with this?” she barked “I thought you wanted to see where it happened”