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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my eyes following the waiter. “No,

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tell you’ve just had the surprise of your

comes back and Ivan takes the drinks from him, sliding him a folded bill and giving him a wink.

Ivan winks at me as well and holds the shot

to me.

hand, shrugging. The truth was, I could use a little bit of a relaxant right now. If I’m the unwitting bachelorette in

little setup, then I’m not sure I want to

I say, taking the lime off the edge of

it up to toast Ivan. He does the

the rim of the glass and

before doing the same.

sharp in my throat and sinuses and I can’t help it

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

hear Ivan laugh at me. “The lime,” he says.

brings some relief, the acid

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the

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

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

With Kent’s worst enemy.

Fay of today? Honestly, I’m kind

closer to me. “You’re already

relaxed.”

at all of

my suitors, apparently. I shake my head

of it all, at

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