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CRAP.
“NOT MUCH.”
He frowned. “So, that guy from the diner was actually in your bedroom? The one I’d seen you with the other day?”
I felt so horrible now that we were actually talking about it. “Yes.”
“How did he get in?”
In other words, he was asking me if I’d voluntarily let him in.
I swallowed. “He knocked on the door and I opened it.”
“Why?”
“I told him to go away. But then he used his powers of persuasion, I guess, and suddenly I was letting him in.”
“He didn’t use those powers to try anything else, did he?”
I didn’t want to lie to him but there was no way I was going to admit to making out with Ethan.
“He was about to kidnap me and that’s when Nathan barged in.”
Duncan relaxed. “Thank God he got there when he did.”
“I know, right? That manipulating thing he does is s
