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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say, my eyes following

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chair. “Relax. I can tell you’ve just

bill and giving him a wink. I can tell by the waiter’s pleasure that it’s

hesitate, but Ivan winks at me as well and

to me.

could use a little bit of a relaxant right now. If I’m the unwitting

sure I want to do it

I say, taking the lime off the edge of

Ivan. He

salt from the rim of the glass and toss my

doing the same.

my throat and sinuses and I can’t help it

the taste of it, sticking out

“The

brings some relief, the acid of the

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the sharpness of the

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

a few weeks ago would have run screaming when she

Kent’s

today? Honestly, I’m kind of enjoying

closer to me. “You’re

relaxed.”

around at all of

my suitors, apparently. I shake my

of it all, at

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