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Chapter 27

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Fawn’s POV

“Yes. I want someone in this apartment whose first priority is whether I stop breathing,” I said. “Not whether your shirt’s buttoned. If it is, then yeah, maybe you should find someone who doesn’t look at you like you’re dessert and I’m chopped liver.”

Silence stretched for a beat.

His gaze dropped, just for a second, to my mouth. The same mouth he’d been devouring a minute ago. Heat prickled under my skin again—stupidly, traitorously.

He dragged his eyes back up. “I’ll speak to her,
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