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was the sweetest, kindest gesture that she had ever had given her way. “Tell me about yourself, Kristof?”
    “You’re welcome,” he said as he tugged the sides closed around her front and then reached for his drink. Taking a sip he watched her. “What do you want to know?” he asked her as he set the glass back on the ledge again.
    “Why did you say those things about me nine years ago, Kris?” Now that wasn’t what she had wanted to say at all. “Never mind, don’t answer that.” She didn’t know why she was asking that question of him, it was so long ago he likely didn’t recall the Scientific Monthly article, but she did. She recalled each word that was written. “Do you have brothers or sisters?” she countered instead.
    “I didn’t say those things,” he told her softly. “The reporter doing the article misquoted me and used other quotations I did give about your Board instead, slipping your name in where appropriate to make the blame sit on your shoulders. Your Board was paying him to make them look rosy and you were the unfortunate fall girl of the day. I sued and had the guy by the balls until he mysteriously vanished.” That had been convenient. “I would never say something like that, especially for print. If I have a problem with someone I go face-to-face with them and hash it out.” Cupping her cheek he tipped her chin up slightly to look at him. “I would never, ever hurt someone I don’t know or do know like that, it’s not who I am.”
    He hadn’t said those things? It was the Board who was doing it? It made sense, however. They always came out smelling like the proverbial rose while her career tanked heavy and hard. She sighed, her career was over with Aegis, she just hadn’t forced herself to see it yet.
    Kissing her softly again he bit her lip and glared at her as she jolted back. “That’s for thinking I’d be that kind of asshole.” Licking at the wound he teased her lips until she let him in with a sigh and kissed her deeply before pulling back. Brushing his thumb back and forth over her mouth he watched her for a moment. “I have three older and one younger brother, no sisters.”
    It was a surprise when he bit her lip, she jolted back and then when he kissed her she breathed out a sigh of relief and into him. Her hands held onto his shoulders and then pulled him closer by burying into the wealth of his hair. She was lost to the kiss until he pulled back, “I don’t have siblings, I had a cousin but I lost him several years ago.” He hadn’t died, he was simply…lost.
    The sky lit up brightly and then the crash of thunder so loud she could feel it in her chest was all that heralded the storm she had predicted. The rain came suddenly, as if heaven’s pool had caught a leak and was crashing down on Earth. She simply grinned up at him. “I love to play in the rain.” She had never told another living soul that fact. She loved to go into the park near her apartment and run, laugh, and play in the storms when they came.
    “I love the rain, as long as I’m in this form,” he commented, looking up at the glass roof protecting them from the deluge. “Not so much being all furry, the smell.” He made a face and shook his head. It was a move much like he would likely do to shake off water. “Not exactly something anyone should have to smell.”
    Her nose wrinkled and she laughed. “Good point.” She turned her face skyward as well, the rain pelting the glass above them was a song to her, and it called to her very blood. She did her best thinking in the rain and afterward her paintings were always so much more than they had been previously. “Would you mind terribly if we left?” she asked suddenly as she looked back at him. She didn’t know what she wanted to do, but it wasn’t being there. She wanted to just simply be with him where they didn’t have to hide in the shadows for fear someone would see them. A frown crossed her face as she asked, “Do you not