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“Well, that’s all settled. So, I’m going to get going,” I said, waving off down the street.

“Saff,” he called, making me stop, but not turn back.

But he just moved up behind me, his lips near my ear, his breath warm on the shell of it.

“That drop key is an open invitation.”

“I do—”

“I know you still have it,” he cut me off.

Of course he did.

He’d probably asked the doorman about it.

Why couldn’t I have just… left the damn thing?

Even as I thought it, though, I knew the answer.

I didn’t want to.

I wanted the option.

Even if I knew it was a terrible idea.

“Use it,” he said, his lips touching my ear. “Oh, and Saff? I like the blue hair. You don’t have to hide it.”

With that, he walked off.

Leaving me all shivery.

“Fuck,” I hissed, forcing my legs to carry me away, when every cell in my body was screaming for me to turn and run to him instead.

I told myself not to look back.

But there was no stopping it.

Soren was gone.

But Serano was standing there, eyes knowing.

Great.

That was just great.

All I could do was hope his aversion to speaking in general would also apply to not telling Renzo what he’d seen.

It was all the more reason I needed to stay away from Soren.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Soren

She’d lasted a week.

I had to give her credit for that level of self-control.

I felt like I was crawling out of my skin each time we needed to interact while she tried not to talk to or look at me directly. Then shuffled off as soon as business matters were handled.

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