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He just lifted a shoulder. “Lucky guess.”
I shook my head. “Whatever. Why didn’t you stick around and have some?”
“Had something come up at the office that I had to take care of right away.”
I grabbed the laptop from the table. “And this?”
He glanced at his gift and then pulled the fridge door open, snagging a beer. It was the first time I’d seen him drink since I moved in. He popped the top and took a long pull from the bottle. When he noticed me watching, he asked, “Want one?”
I did. God, I wanted a whole case. But it was getting late and I had yet another shift in the ER in the morning, so I shook my head. “No, but thanks.”
He lifted his chin and slid around me, heading down the hall.
“Hey, you didn’t answer me!” I shouted to his back.
He paused, his voice barely more than a whisper. “I owed you a laptop.”
He resumed his stride and disappeared before I had a chance to say anything more.
With a heavy sigh, I grabbed my water bottle and new computer and trudged to my bedroom.
I didn’t know who this Lawson was, but I wasn’t too dumb to not appreciate what he’d done. And I’d figure out his deal eventually.
In the meantime, I needed to figure out my own deal.
Like why I was suddenly thinking about the way his voice sounded when he was teasing me. Or how his eyes lit when I said his name. Or how I wondered if he’d had a serious relationship while he was in Vegas.
And worse yet, why the thought caused my chest to squeeze, in a way it never did when I thought about Hampton and his boyfriends.
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Lawson
“Yessir.”
I can see you! Your brown…
“Mmhmm.”
Sunglasses baby!
“Right.”
My love for you will…
“No, sir.”
After the poison summer has gone…
“I’ll get it taken care of, sir.”
But first, I had something else to take care of.
I put my phone on the desk and roared, “Piper!”
The music cut off abruptly and I could hear her footsteps as she padded down the hall.
“What’s up?” she asked when she stuck her head inside my office door.
