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Her single word answers seethed even over text Who’d said this was supposed to be easy? Oh, that was me What a moron

Better head to bed early tonight to prepare for the clusterfuck headed my way tomorrow

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“Do you have everything?” Leo called out the second I opened the passenger side door

I slid into s into the back seat Turning to hier—not the one I wanted, but the one that wouldn’t send our tenuous truce spiraling and ruin our first chance to prove ourselves “One ti once”

“Which happened to be the most i What was it you said?” He tapped his chin “It’s not personal It’s business”

I ja that he’d thrown my oords back at me

“This will be the first tiround rules”

“This’ll be good” Leo pulled into traffic and we started our hour-long drive out to the estate He had on his favorite work uniforht blue button-down rolled up so his sinewy forearroups there I hadn’t known existed “I’ain re he was

“You took a few liberties at the presentation when—”

“When you eaze cut toliberties” He added a hands-totally-off-the-steering-wheel set of air quotes to the last word

“Hands on the wheel” I reached for it

He pushed my hands back over to my side of the car

I huffed “I’ve apologized, but we’re in it now, so I’d like to set soe”