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 the surprise of

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

Ivan winks at me as

to me.

I could use a little bit of

little setup, then I’m not sure I

say, taking the lime off the edge

Ivan. He does the same, and

the salt from the rim of

doing

is sharp in my throat and sinuses and I can’t

body shudders. I make a face, then, at the taste of it,

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

relief, the acid

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of the tequila on

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to the waiter again,

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

Kent’s worst

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

says, leaning closer to me.

relaxed.”

I murmur, looking around at all of the

at all of my suitors, apparently. I shake my

all, at the wasted effort.

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