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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–” I say, my eyes following

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leaning back in his chair. “Relax. I can tell you’ve just had

from him, sliding him a folded bill and giving him a wink.

as well and holds the shot nearer

to me.

a little

sure I want to do it sober.

taking the lime off the edge of the

He does the same, and then watches

rim of the glass

before doing

sharp in my throat and sinuses

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

at me. “The lime,” he

indeed, it brings some relief, the acid

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the tequila

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

a few weeks ago would have run screaming when she found out that she was doing shots of tequila with

With Kent’s

Honestly, I’m kind of

to

relaxed.”

murmur, looking around at

all of my suitors, apparently. I shake my

all, at

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