The CEO's Matchmaker

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you look

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d isle and swallow my cry as I ad

wasn't fair. People actually

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single chair, cros

came off odd to me. As did his total ease with the

at's th

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hered, which unsettled the layers u

command but I shut it

for this meet

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child

the humans you bring into the w

in terms of work. Will

they are cared for you are free to do as you wish..." Hi

gs in a few days or do you prefer i

slack at his

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brain does just

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tumble forward in an attempt to ris

red of it's owner's seeming rationa

notice. I'm moving

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force my head to get back in line. "I didn'

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he befuddled man. "We're getting

rack." That's

off his face. "I'm sober and do

d me." I mutter

understand, it's how things have to be." Xav

're back I'm shooting daggers in his direction. "Really? Or is

y yes in the

hint of irritation laces my voice. "

ve to wait for? Certainly not love, and

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can smell the mix of a no doub

ule to those in my eyes, and I'm j

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my lips, making sure to train

dle of a co

s of no significance so allow me

es form around them. " Is there

getting married and there's no need

my hand slips away before

charge into the elevator and away fro

......................

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against the s

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car bonnet, and I feel it hi

see a small figure illum

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side and a shadow traces

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