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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

“You’re so weird,” he says, shaking his head at me

gasp, “you said I could be anyone I

right,” he laughs, his grin growing, “you can

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any fantasy at all

through me. “I liked The Sound

kid-

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Ivan agrees eagerly, his words overlapping mine as he reaches out to grab me, pressing his hand against

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he mumurs, pulling my body closer to him so that I’m laying flat on the lounge and

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for

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I was going for the opposite of that

the

thigh, his fingers teasing at the edge of my skirt, “I went to Catholic school – I’ve been fantasizing about

“What?!”

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he continues, “do

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

goes along with me, our bodies shaking against each other at the ridiculousness of it, and

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smiling up at him, not allowing myself to think too much about what I’m doing as I raise my hands to run them through his blonde hair,

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

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