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She didn’t realize that Archer had parked until she felt his finger stroke a strand of hair fro her eyes, she realized they were at the Pacific Pier Building

"Hey," he said quietly

"Do you think fa exhale "If you’re talking about the family we make and not the one we’re born into, then yes"

Once in a while, he said soot she wanted to kill him the rest of the time

Not true, a little voice said Sometimes you still want to kiss him

"You okay?" he asked "I think I just lost you there for a ed a smile as she slid out of the truck The terees "Come on, Archer You should know by now I’m always okay"

Chapter 10

LikeAGoodNeighbor

Elle didn’t sleep well She tossed and turned, and by the time she showered, she’d reaffir to let her feelings for Archer, confusing as they were, hold her back

She took her online class in her office but kept tuning out the professor She eyed the stack of things that had to be done at work later and sighed She loved her job, she did, but so she could say about it was that her chair spun

Still, she gamely transitioned fro in on her work co the password only further frustrated her because the password had to include an uppercase letter, a nuin

Over it, she stood She needed a ’tude adjustment before she tossed her co her office, she took the elevator up, staring at her reflection in thelonely

Which was ridiculous Her life was fine, good even She didn’t need Archer, or any ht She wanted to be held, touched Desired

She had to use a special keycard to get the elevator to stop on the fifth floor, which everyone thought was paid storage, authorized personnel only

It wasn’t paid storage

It was a penthouse apart, three-hundred-and-sixty-degree views of the city

Spence’s

He wasn’t home so she let herself in and walked to the tall s to look out at the city below, deteret her life back on track The security and safety track Happiness would be nice as well but beggars couldn’t be choosers

She was still standing there when Spence, accompanied by his friend and forear and all sweaty, talking about soram for one of their drones

Spence looked up with a smile on his face that faded at whatever he found on hers She had a great poker face when she wanted but at theto reveal the crazy in front of Caleb, she headed into Spence’s kitchen His fridge was usually well stocked because he was always hungry and everyone knew it Women loved to make food for him Trudy was the worst culprit of them all She constantly cooked for hier for hie and found a container of perfect littlein