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“Should I go out there and pin you against a wall then?”
Her eyelashes flutter.
My lips tilt up. Now that the image is in my head, I realize I’m not totally against it.
“I’m just saying,” Elizabeth insists. “There needs to be a balance. We can’t be robots or there’s no way we’ll convince my family that we’re really together. Novah’s always calling this office and there’s bound to be gossip…”
I sigh and silently curse Levy for making things way more complicated than they need to be.
“Fine.”
“Fine?” She leans back, her eyes searching mine.
“I’ll follow your lead.” I start to walk way when Elizabeth touches my hand.
“Wait, what about the story?”
“You mean of how we got together?”
She nods.
“I’ll follow your lead on that too.”
“You sure?”
“Positive,” I growl, tired of the conversation. I need to visit Steph’s hospital and make arrangements with her doctors as soon as possible. “Are we good?”
“Fantastic.”
I sigh again. “What’s wrong?”
“Nothing. Just… I sure hope you’re a good actor.”
“Don’t worry about me,” I smile grimly. “I know how to play the part.”
She gives me a funny look.
With a shake of my head, I wrench the door open and storm out.
A soft hand latches onto mine.
I feel a tug.
My forward momentum does a one-eighty as I stumble toward Elizabeth.
I slap my hand against the wall to keep from crushing her.
Her eyes meet mine. She catches my jaw in her hand. Her fingers grip my beard tightly. Wrenching my chin to the side, she plants a kiss on my cheek.
It’s soft.
Sweet.
The complete opposite of all the stink faces and glares she’d given me inside the office.
Batting her eyelashes, she pretends to fix her shirt. “Baby, we’re in public.”
I glance over my shoulder.
