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I glanced back at the text I’d sent her five minutes ago.
Me
You thinking about runnin’ today?
It was the same one I’d sent her every morning for the last seven days, though I’d told her it didn’t count as one of my twenty questions.
I’d used up to question nine.
Mostly I’d kept it pretty light because I didn’t want to spook her, and I sure as hell didn’t want to be the reason that her shining eyes went dim.
Besides, the bantering with this girl was fun.
No doubt, I was going to have to take it deeper, knock some bricks out of the wall she kept erected around her.
Fortified battlements around a castle, the girl in a tower and staring down, too fucking high for me to reach.
It also meant I was going to have to give her some of me, which was so goddamn reckless, the way I was contemplating giving her a glimpse when doing it should have been absolutely out of the question.
The rules had been set in place for a reason.
Still, I was grinning when a response finally blipped through.
Little Runner
Not today.
Me
Good girl.
Swore, I could almost feel her blush through the phone. The way she always got all shy and affected. Loved that about her. The way she was shuttered. A flower hidden behind her pains and fears.
But I could feel her, aching to bloom.
Me
How’d you sleep?
It didn’t take her long to respond.
Little Runner
You sure are using up those questions on silly things for someone who was hoping to get to know me better.
Me
Checking on you doesn’t count. You already know that.
I would have used up those questions on the first day if that was the case.
Little Runner
And how’s it you get to make the rules?
Me
Because I’m the big boss, like Nolan said.
