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Brodie was up before her and had brewed coffee that she gratefully drank after getting out of her shower the next morning. As was always the case when she woke up with Brodie in her apartment, she was running late.
She’d forgotten to grab her cell phone, so she ran back up to retrieve it from her apartment while Brodie went downstairs to pull out his bike. She put the phone in the inside pocket of her jacket and stepped onto the concrete of the service area at the back of her building at the same second Brodie’s motorcycle roared to life.
The sound stopped her in her tracks. When she looked up and saw him there on it, waiting for her, a grin burst to her expression. Rushing over to him, she took his face in both hands and kissed him so thoroughly, he must have th
