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    |ugh at his stupid little game, shaking my head, hesitating. He reaches out and takes my hand, though, lifting and lowering our


    sped fingers in a forced shake.


    “Come on,” he whispers. “Try it.”


    “Nice to meet you Rodrigo,” | murmur, flicking my eyes up to him, smirking a little.


    “I''m a lion tamer,” he says,


    pitching his voice lower as he takes on his role. “I spend my days


    taming wild beasts and my


    nights...taming wild women. And who are you?” he asks, holding my hand tight. “Come on, Fay,” he urges in a whisper, giving


    me a little nudge with his shoulder when | hesitate. “You can be


    anyone.”


    | tilt my head back, giving into it, my hair falling back over my shoulders as | look up into the sky and consider my options. “I’m


    Sister Mary Alexander,” | say finally, smiling to myself as | decide. “I’m a Benedictine nun. | make fancy marzipan and sell it on


    the streets of Austria to raise money for the orphans under my


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    care.”


    “Fay,” | hear lvan whisper, snapping me out of my imaginary wanderings and drawing my gaze immediately back to him. | blink in


    surprise when | see a smile


    stretched across his face from


    cheek to cheek. “You''re so weird,” he says, shaking his head at me a little, augh starting in his chest.


    “What!” | gasp, “you said | could be anyone | wanted —”


    “That’s right,” heughs, his grin growing, “you can pick anything in


    the world — any fantasy at all — and you pick a nun?”


    “What!” | protest, leaning forward andughing with him, joy running through me. “I liked The Sound of Music a lot when | was a


    kid-


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    “Oh, so did |,” lvan agrees eagerly, his words ovepping mine as he reaches out to grab me, pressing his hand against my


    lower back, “you actually hit the nail on the


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    head, Sister Mary he mumurs, pulling my body closer to him so that I’mying t on the lounge and he’s curved over me. “This


    is


    actually working for me


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    “What!?” | shout, aghast —ughing through my shock — | was going for the opposite of that least sexy thing | could think of —


    the


    “Oh yeah,” Ivan nods, smirking down at me, moving the hand on my back to graze the side of my ass and move briskly down my


    thigh, his fingers teasing at the edge of my skirt, “I went to Catholic school — I’ve been fantasizing about this for a long time —”


    “What?!”


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    “Mmhmm,” he continues, “do you


    think you could say the rosary for a little bit, and like, look at me disapprovingly? Or, actually, could you get a ruler and p me


    on the wrist — just a couple times —


    I''mughing so hard now that | can feel tears pricking at my eyes. Ivan goes along with me, our bodies shaking against each


    other at the ridiculousness of it, and suddenly | find myself a little bit in love with his sense of humor, his ability to take anything


    and twist it and make it fun.


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