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playing with me, ha ha, but this is my future, a field I want to be in and I have spent the last three years busting my ass to make it a reality…not to mention the scholarship that I was lucky enough to receive.”
    He stood up and looked at me, his eyes soft and I could see the regret coming on.
    “I was not playing with you, Fay. I enjoyed talking to you, I really did.”
    I shifted from one foot to the other. “Well that’s great, but I am not a lab rat.”
    “Oh my God, is that what you think of me? Come on.”
    I narrowed my eyes and looked him over. “I don’t know you, I mean, you don’t even know me. What else could it be?”
    He paused and looked around his room and then back to me.
    “Did it ever occur to you that maybe, I liked you?”
    I paused as his words lingered in the air between us.
    “You teach.”
    “And?”
    “I mean…I am in your class.”
    “That is a bit odd, but it still changes nothing.”
    I rubbed my neck. “I don’t…”
    He stepped towards me. “You owe me a coffee.”
    “What?” I asked as he interrupted my thoughts again.
    “Coffee, remember, the bet?”
    I smiled and looked down, my hair fell forward and then I pushed one side of it behind my ear.
    “The age thing,” he said, even as I thought about it.
    He held his hands out. “I swear I am not some old pervert trying to confuse girls into doing me.”
    I shook my head and held back the laughter as I looked around his office.
    “The pictures are beautiful.”
    He looked around at them too.
    “It’s a hobby for me. I love my camera.”
    “Oh yeah? I love to shoot, I just don’t get much time to do it, but I do love it.”
    “Well maybe…” he trailed off and I sighed.
    “Listen, I didn’t mean to sound like a bitch, but this is awkward. I mean, there are rules, rules in schools for a reason and I….”
    He stepped towards me. “I get that, if you would rather just come to class and do your thing, it is totally fine. I am not hitting on you, Fay, I just thought we could be friends.” He walked to his desk and then sat down at his chair. I studied his jawline and then his lips, full and soft. He looked up and had to move a bit of his dark hair out of his eyes, which had fallen down all cute and aggravating. I suddenly started to feel a bit foolish. I mean, I am assuming he wants to do me and never once did he even hint at it. I cleared my throat.
    “Eight…I will be at the café at eight tonight if you want that coffee that I owe you,” I said and he grinned and leaned forward.
    “Okay, I will be there.”
    “It’s not a date.” I said and he nodded to me.
    “Totally cool, we are just hanging out.”
    I sighed and looked him over.
    “How the hell are you an assistant professor at twenty-nine?”
    “I graduated high school at fifteen, my brain is on overdrive,” he said as he pointed to his head. I smiled and then walked to the door. I stopped and turned around with my legs crossed.
    “I will see you tonight…Keegan.”
    He smiled and I left him, closing the door behind me and touching my lip as my heartbeat did a flutter thing in my chest. I could not possibly be flirting with the idea of this, could I? Shit. 
     

                                       
    Chapter Five
    Buying Heaven
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

I showed up much earlier than needed, and I actually put on some mineral make-up, did my hair in long curls and wore clothes that I normally saved for a night out. I also put some heels on, well, more like wedges, gray suede with a black stripe up the back. They were closed toed, with three Velcro straps across the front of them. I loved to wear them with my shorts so I had not held back when I got dressed for this. I knew, as I should, that anything with Keegan would be dangerous, but damn. As I had gotten ready, and even before that, in my shower, I had flashes of his lips in my mind. I honestly think that this book I am writing is