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I walked beside her in silence She toldstore and a funny story about so

Her hair shone in thethe story that it seemed like, for just a short ti and I wouldn’t push too hard With any other woman, I’d have made a move and not even considered rejection but, with Dee, rejection was high risk

When we got to the apart me about the contract

“The only thing I’m worried about is that on’t have full creative control The co some decisions I don’t like”

She punched h for you,” she said “I guess them’s the breaks If you want to work for the man, you have to do it the man’s way It won’t hurt you to compromise”

If I twisted things really hard in my brain, I could al

“I guess I should go,” I said

As I turned to leave, she reached out to stop me

“Alex,” she said

“Yes?”

She looked at the ground I knew exactly what she wanted to ask and I prayed she wouldn’t Pete had stirred things up, that’s for sure

“Oh, nothing”

Dee

I wanted to celebrate the fact that Alex had walkedhiiven him any indication ere more than just friends

The lust monster inside me was slain