Page 50 of Infected By Virus

“Fine.” She mirrored his reluctant compliance. “But I want to know what happened between you two that drove you apart.”

“Fine.”

That word seemed to sum up the conversation.

After a prolonged silence where neither spoke, they just sat together on the phone in their feelings.

“Rae?”

“Yeah.”

They both sounded exhausted.

“I love you.”

She smiled in spite of the situation.

“I love you too.”

“Don’t make me wait too long with this seduction plan of yours or I’m taking over, and babe, I guarantee you ain’t ready for my plan.”

His voice still held concern and anger and all the intense emotions that were pervasive over the course of the call, but that wicked playfulness laced with cockiness crept in.

Flutters started in her stomach and traveled south. He was right; she was not ready for his seduction plan.

Damn.

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