Page 119 of Going Viral for Christmas

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Or both.

Light touching.

Deflecting. Okay. Kissing?

Strategic kissing. For the fans.

Tongue or no tongue?

Please say tongue.

You’re impossible.

Only for you.

We’ll make a plan. We’ll be PREPARED. Not like that stunt you pulled at Feast and Fiction.

Or we could improvise. Like I did at Feast and Fiction.

Dangerous game, improvising.

I love dangerous games.

My heart does a traitorous flip.

You’re full of lines tonight, Pembry. Are you workshopping newmaterial?

Only one muse these days. She’s snarky, suspicious, secretly sweet. Killer mouth on her.

That mouth is used for espresso and eviscerating fan theories. Not fluffing your ego.

Fluffing, huh? Is that on the table?

Kidding. Kind of. Unless…

There will be no fluffing.

I get hard when you turn bossy. It’s hot.

I’m ignoring that. Quick question though…

Uh-oh. That tone.

How experiencedisthe tortured fantasy villain, exactly?

What do you mean by “experienced.”

I don’t know. How many… chapters have you written with other women?

Chapters?

Pages? Scenes? Acts? I’m being delicate here.

You mean my body count?

Yeah.

That WAS subtle. As you’re aware, I’m not a saint, Ava. But I’m also not who the internet says I am.

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