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Оглавление“Jeez, Fallon—you’re not actually hoping to stir up trouble, are you?”
“Maybe I am,” she said. “Maybe I’m tired of every man I know treating me like a buddy. Maybe I want someone to look at me and realize I’m a woman, to want me as a woman.”
And suddenly he got it. “You mean me,” he realized. “You want me to see you as a woman.”
She sighed as she shook her head. “No, Jamie. I think I’ve finally accepted that that is never going to happen.”
“But I do see you as a woman,” he assured her. “A genuinely warm, funny and smart woman.”
“Maybe it’s un-PC,” she admitted. “But I don’t want to be admired for my personality or my intelligence. I want to be wanted.”
Jamie swallowed. “You’re looking for a hookup?”
“That wouldn’t be my first choice,” she said. “But I’ve decided to open my mind up to any and all possibilities.”
“A hookup should not be one of them,” he told her. “You deserve better than that.”
“What does the song say—we can’t always get what we want, but we get what we need?”
“Don’t go, Fallon.” The words were out of his mouth before he realized what he was saying.
She paused with her hand on the door.
“Don’t go out to the Ace tonight.”
She slowly turned around, her expression carefully neutral.
“Are you making me an alternate offer?” she asked.
He nodded. “Stay here. With me.”
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