Chapter 107

Ivan laughs at me then, at my speechlessness, and I can’t help myself – I laugh too, putting my head in my hands.

“Yes,” I say, blushing terribly. “I have heard of you. And I have to

say, it has not all been good things.”

“Oh, come on,” he says, still laughing a little. “It can’t have been

all bad.”

I peek out from between my fingers and raise an eyebrow at him letting him know that, yeah. It’s all been bad.

“What,” he says, joking, “nobody told you about my striking good

looks or my debonaire sense of style when they were telling you

about my success in the drug trade?”

I shake my head slowly, finding myself laughing again. I can’t help

it – he’s terribly charming.

“Well,” he says, giving me a sexy little half–smile. “Now you

know.”

Ivan catches the eye of a waiter and holds up a hand. “Two shots. of tequila,” he says, definitive. The waiter nods, walking the short distance to the little bar and interrupting the bar tender to get the

order in right away.

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eyes following the waiter.

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you’ve just had the surprise of your life. You need a little something to settle the

folded bill and giving him a wink. I can tell by

as well and holds

to me.

truth was, I could use a little bit of a relaxant right now. If

sure I want

I say, taking the lime off the edge of the glass and

up to toast Ivan. He does the

slowly lick the salt from the rim of the

before doing the same.

throat and sinuses and I can’t help it as

face, then, at the taste of it, sticking out my tongue

laugh at me. “The lime,” he

some relief, the acid of the

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the tequila on my tongue.

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open my eyes again, meeting Ivan’s smile with my own. He gestures to the waiter

weeks pass. Fay of a few weeks ago would have run screaming when she found out that

Kent’s worst

I’m kind of enjoying myself.

leaning closer to

relaxed.”

looking around at all of the people

at all of my suitors, apparently. I shake my head at the

of it all, at the

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