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2025-02-17 16:54:05Carson's POV
I had no idea how I was going to break the news to her. But I had to, one way or the order.
"What's on your mind?" She asked, the minute she walked into the office and closed the door behind her, then turned around to face me. She walked further into the room, her hands were tucked at the back pocket of her jean.
"What makes you think I have something on my mind?" I asked and she chuckled softly at what I had intended to be a firm tone, hoping it would quicken this up.
"You're chewing on your own, love." She said. Maybe I had been chewing in my own but for a while all I could think about was the word she had just refered to me as: love. I shook my head, trying not to smile like a teen boy talking cowardly and stupidly to his first crush.
I finally smiled a controlled smile. "I chew my pen whenever I'm nervous."
"Ooh, I know one more thing about you. Score, go me!" She said with a bright smile, throwing her hands
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