Chapter 17

Chapter

17

The bulk of the day went by

Oscar to change.

by without any

Aan weaseled his way into her offer a few minutes before she neede

He entered her office without knocking g and plopped himself int

eyes at the expectant look on his face.

"Tea. Spill. Now, Aaron demanded seriously

haushing nne mote email

Katrina rolled her eyes at him a second time and sighed. She sent the email and turned in look at hun. "What do you want to ku Innocently. Aaron laughed. "Everything. He kissel you already!" he asked with a smirk.

She stood and grabbed her cout from off its hanger, slipping it on and then beginning in pack up I refusing to look at Aaron as she spoke. sip herhnelene. "It was hardly al

she mandled

Aaron perked up in his seat, "Oh It sounds like there's a story!

y behind your words" he asked with a mischnevars stile. She motioned for Aaron to get out of his chair. He listened, thankfully, and she turned off the light in her office and made her way to the elevator: "He's just oddly particular about kissing." Katrina explained with a shrug of her shoulders.

She pressed the "down" arrow on the elevator and checked the time on her phone. She hopeil Oscar had been able to find what she needed for the baseball game. She felt terrible for pawning more responsibility off on him, but Kylan had insisted she is present for all meetings and negotiititatis throughout the day, so she had no choice but to ask her driver for help.

What do y you mean? The man has probably slept with half the women in this city, at the very least," Aaron doors opened.

n said incredulously, just as the elevator

She stepped inside and Aaron followed her, Jeaning against the wall and crossing his arms. Tim not denying he has she replied simply "But that doesn't mean he isn't particular about kissing, she reiterated.

gaze at her before he finally rolled his eyes and shrugged his shoulders. "Fine. Are you

has any idea still. I want to talk to him in person, ideally. Maybe explain the whole thing, or at least as much as Kylan will allow me to." The elevator doors pulled open,

by the SUV for her, along with Kylan. She looked back at Aaron. "No more questions. Thank you for asking how I'm

him, pausing to wrap an arm around his

around her too, squeezing her shoulder where his hand rested. "We better. You let me know if he d to make you

does anything

one more time with her hand, and then she let go as she reached the car Kylan glanced up from his phone, his eyes narrowing to slats when he looked at Aaron. "Gardner, get back to work." he snapped at him Aaron removed his arm from around her and she was thankful he didn't roll his

at Kylan. "Are you ready to go, Sir!" she asked

stepped

them to her apartment, stopping outside and then handing her a brown

the bag. "I'll be about fifteen minutes. Do you want to come inside, so you aren't waiting in

tried to remember if it was

her for a moment and then he cleared his

what she had both decided about if she was in public, and she wondered if this counted. Was he going to let go of her hand' Should she bet

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tollow bas lend, mut when he

one she was out of the car, she

bouilling and to the elevator, Thor luside,

would ever get ined to it, being so close to

she was standing mutside her apartment. She fished his keys

she hesitated. She glanned at

it's clean cough, she wild

"Come and then, we have a

gel

to," he said briskly.

adserved his face and was relieved to see that he didn't

entered, watching as hylan took in

hand a lude awkwardly. Please

good enough and walked to her bedroom with the brown

of the bag out her bed and picked up the jersey for them. She upped the tag oft and then slipped

to finish her hair, Hutting up the pieces afterward She spritzed some perfume across

and ifsen asked some lipstick for gol mesure. She can her brush though her hair a ang some on the nude at her wrists for good measine. With one last

and

and dining rooms, his hands in the pockets of his pants, "I painted that commented, shipping on her sneakers near her door and

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