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Just easy.

And weirdly funny.

Mason:

What’s your portfolio even about?

Rowan:

Media writing.

Interviews. Culture pieces. Editorial stuff.

Mason:

So you judge people professionally.

Rowan:

Exactly.

You should be terrified.

Mason:

Too late.

My stomach did something dumb at that reply.

Again.

God.

I leaned back against the wall behind my bed while Serena kept pretending not to listen from across the room.

Very badly pretending, by the way.

Then another message came through.

Mason:

You’ll get the internship.

I stared at it longer than the others.

Not because it was flirty.

Because it felt honest.

Simple.

Certain.

Like he believed it completely.

Rowan:

You don’t know that.

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