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"Yeah, I don’t think that will be a problem," I concluded

"I mean, we can’t keep our hands off each other That’s ere late," she said, winging up her eyebrows

We’d picked up Mallory and Catcher in one of the House’s enormous black SUVs, since Ethan’s personal vehicle--a sleek black Ferrari--had been destroyed in a car chase with one of Reed’s cronies

So they’d been at it while ere sitting outside on the curb, completely unaware

"Well," I said after a stiff drink, "even if the pace, let’s say, does slon, being colanced at Ethan, as standing on the other side of the table, cue in hand like the pike his Swedish country"

"He does get you, and that’s irinned "But you can’t tell ularly"

"You’re ruining Star Wars for rinned "He’s plenty skilled with his, you know--"

"You’re trying not to say ‘lightsaber,’ but you really want to"

"I really do" I waved ot one and he kno to use it"

"Katana Broadsword Saber"

"We were supposed to be discussing Catcher," I reminded her "And since I’ve seen his, aheot one I think every relationship has its ups and downs, its arcs So to prep her damn raood for you anyway Too much sodium"

"I’m immortal," I pointed out

"You are that," she said "I hope you’re right Do you think you and Darth Sullivan will be able to keep the spark alive six or seven hundred years froht about often, ine it Ethan had been alive for nearly four hundred years He’d seen war, violence, fa I stayed away from the business end of an aspen stake, I could see all that andI could easily wrap my ine not wanting hi tih, preparing me for its inevitability, that "if" was really a conservative estimate "When he proposes," I said, "and if I say yes, then the decision isback"

I smiled at that Immortality intimidated me; colass against rouchy-ass rinned wickedly "And do, when the incentive’s right"

"I feel like we’re getting dangerously close to naked Catcher territory again"

"We’re only territory adjacent," she said with a wink She put her glass down, looked at me for a few seconds She smiled softly, as if she knew all the world’s secrets