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 the waiter. “No, I can’t

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“Relax. I 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

hesitate, but Ivan winks at me as

to me.

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

sure I want to

the lime off the edge

Ivan. He does the same, and

the salt from the rim of the glass and toss

before doing the same.

my throat and sinuses and I can’t help it as

at the taste of it, sticking out

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

relief,

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of the tequila on my tongue.

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smile with my own. He gestures to the

feeling that’s becoming oddly more familiar as the weeks pass. Fay of a few weeks ago would have run screaming when she found out that she was doing shots of tequila with the wunderkind

Kent’s worst

today? Honestly, I’m kind of enjoying

to me.

relaxed.”

around at all of the

suitors, apparently.

at the

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