“Nova.” “Forget I said anything.” I don’t mean to laugh, but I feel slightly hysterical. “It is burned into my brain.” I’ll be hearing her murmur come home with me in her husky, sweet voice for the rest of my life. She frowns. “I don’t want to talk about it anymore.” “That makes one of us.” She makes a frustrated noise under her breath. Finally, she meets my eyes again. “Charlie. Please. I don’t know what I was thinking. Let’s just…let’s just talk about expense reports instead.” A faintly pained noise leaves the back of my throat. “I don’t know how you expect me to talk dirty to you on top of
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