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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following the waiter.

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can tell you’ve just had the surprise of your life. You need

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

me as

to me.

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

sure I want to

I say, taking the lime off the edge of the

toast Ivan. He

the rim of

doing the

tequila is sharp in my throat and

I make a face, then, at the taste of it, sticking out my tongue and

Ivan laugh at me. “The lime,” he

indeed, it brings some relief, the

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sharpness of the

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smile with my own. He gestures to the waiter again, ordering another round, and I lean back in my chair, letting

weeks ago would have run screaming when she found out

With Kent’s

Fay of today? Honestly, I’m kind of enjoying myself.

leaning closer to

relaxed.”

right,” I murmur, looking around at

apparently. I shake my

it all, at

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