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I swallow hard. “Oh, right. Sorry,” I say to her.
To her credit, Dani smiles. “It’s okay.”
As Fox passes Caleb, the two of them exchange a kiss on the cheek. “Hey, Cal.”
“Hey, Fox.” She cranes her neck and calls over her shoulder. “Did you bring me back something Japanese?”
“I might have.”
“Yay.”
“Hey, Caleb,” Dani greets.
“Hey, Dani.” Caleb pauses near me and I notice the brown envelope in her hand as she lays it on the counter near my laptop. “Mostly harmless?” she asks me.
“I stand by my phrasing,” I say.
Dani clears her little throat and twists away with a smile. “I’m going to go help him,” she says, her eyes jolting between us with a knowing glimmer.
“Bye, Dani,” I say. She takes off and I wait until her echoing feet disappear out the front door. “Okay, she is fucking adorable.”
“I know, right?” Caleb says.
“I didn’t even know the human race was capable of imbuing that much cuteness into one living being.”
“I think she’s already taken, Box.”
“Story of my life.” I shake my head. “Eh, that’s not really my type, anyway.”
“I’m not sure how to take that.”
“Let me know when you figure it out.” My eyes fall down her body. “You feeling okay?”
“Not too bad,” she says. “No side effects to speak of other than a massive headache but a few tequila shots on the way over here did wonders for that.”
“Good.”
Her eyes graze my shoulder. “And you?”
I point at it, acting cool. “What? This? It was nothing.”
She flicks my arm, shooting a sharp pain across my back.
I hold back my wince. “Okay, that was just mean.”
She chuckles. “Sorry.”
“It’s all right.” I look into her green eyes and the pain disappears. “How did you know I was here?”
“Where else would you be?”
“Decent point.”
She puts her fingers on the envelope and slides it a little closer to me to change the subject. “So, you kept these…”
“I did.”
“Why?”
