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I laugh at his stupid little game, shaking my head, hesitating. He reaches out and takes my hand, though, lifting and lowering our clasped fingers in a forced shake.

“Come on,” he whispers. “Try it.”

“Nice to meet you Rodrigo,” I murmur, flicking my eyes up to him, smirking a little.

“I’m a lion tamer,” he says,

pitching his voice lower as he takes on his role. “I spend my days

taming wild beasts and my

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nights…taming wild women. And who are you?” he asks, holding my hand tight. “Come on, Fay,” he urges in a whisper, giving me a little nudge with his shoulder when I hesitate. “You can be

anyone.”

I tilt my head back, giving into it, my hair falling back over my shoulders as I look up into the sky and consider my options. “I’m Sister Mary Alexander,” I say finally, smiling to myself as I decide. “I’m a Benedictine nun. I make fancy marzipan and sell it on the streets of Austria to raise money for the orphans under my

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care.”

“Fay,” I hear Ivan whisper, snapping me out of my imaginary wanderings and drawing my gaze immediately back to him. I blink in surprise when I see a smile

stretched across his face from

his head at me a little,

I could be anyone I wanted –”

his grin growing, “you can pick anything

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at all – and you pick a nun?”

running through me. “I

kid-

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grab me, pressing his hand against my lower back, “you actually

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my body closer to him so that I’m laying flat

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for me

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for the opposite of that least sexy thing I could think

the

my thigh, his fingers teasing at the edge of my skirt, “I went to Catholic

“What?!”

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continues,

the rosary for a little bit, and like, look at me disapprovingly? Or, actually, could you get a ruler and slap me on the wrist – just

our bodies shaking against each other at the ridiculousness of

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I murmur a moment later when my laughter fades a bit. I’m smiling up at him, not allowing myself to think too much about what I’m doing as I raise my hands to run them

his arms and his chest. “What do a lion tamer and a

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