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“I’ll take you to school today kitten”

“Nooo” I whined. I had just stepped out of the house on my way to school. “You know I don’t like being driven”

He gives me a look “You sure about that kitten?” the words are lowered. My belly clenched and I trapped a giggle between my teeth.

“I don’t want you to get used to it or you’ll be asking me all the time” Since meeting him he's managed to convince me to get in the passenger seat and go along for a drive more times than I could count.

“I wasn’t going to" He seemed to give that a second thought. "Okay that’s a lie”

I laughed, we both knew it was a lie. “I thought you already left,” I say shifting my bag higher on my shoulder, he hadn't been present at breakfast so I imagined he had one of those early meetings as he did sometimes.

"I was in my office" he clasped me free hand “Just this once, I want to be with you this morning” he nudged me forward with his briefcase case.

Not sure why, but his words made me blush, there was ju