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E, unprofessional things?

“Listen tothis because we have to So I’ll thank you to keep a civil tongue in your head and remember that we are not an actual couple—we are just people who are working together and that requires a level of professionalism”

Rarev gave her a slow, sensual smile that showed his sharp, white teeth

“In that case, I’ll do my best to be professional when I treat you ascouple”

Em wasn’t so sure about that, but she decided not to say any ash appeared in space, right in front of the ship

“Get ready,” Rarev said “That’s the fold—we’re going through it right to Rigellen Five”

As the ship fleards the red gash, Erip on the armrests of her chair

She wondered what in the world—no, what in the universe—she had gotten herself into

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“So you’re interested in the ellen Mining Director raised his blue eyebrows and flared his third nostril at them and his wife did the sa behind a crystal-clear counter and neither one earing many clothes The Director was bare-chested and he see crotchless trousers His wife didn’t see on at all Also, they appeared to be…intimately attached to one another

E Director, as right behind his wife, was doingher and apparently fucking her—to put it crudely— in and out of her with slow, leisurely thrusts even as he conducted the interview