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"My bad

I’ it off

"It’s hard for s I’ one of them"

"I’m sorry about the breakup," he said, his dark eyes ith sy better by Saturday

His ribs were still bandaged and his ar around on his own and didn’t need the nurse anyht a beauty team over to our apart room

Cary was in heaven

He had no qual spa day

My mom looked tired, which wasn’t like her at all

I knew she orried about Stanton

And she wasabout my dad, too

It see hiing for her had been hot and alive to ine what it reat to be around two people who loved ivearound with

My ht me a box of my favorite Knipschildt truffles, which I savored slowly

It was the one indulgence she never scolded ht to chocolate

"What are you going to have done?" Cary asked oop s his hair trimmed in its usual sexily floppy style, and his toenails were being trimmed and filed into perfect rounded squares

I licked the chocolate off ers and considered my answer

The last tireed to have an affair with Gideon

He and I were going on our first date, and I knee’d be having sex

I’d chosen a package designed for seduction, rant with scents purported to have aphrodisiac properties

Everything was different now

In a way, I had a second chance to do things over

The investigation into Nathan’s death was a concern for us all, but the fact that he was gone from my life forever liberated me in a way I hadn’t realized I’d needed

Somewhere in the back ofthere

It was always a possibility that I could see hi as he was alive

Noas free

I also had a new chance to embrace my New York life in a way I hadn’t before

I was accountable to no one

I could go anywhere with anyone

I could be anyone

Who was the Eva Tramell who lived in Manhattan and had her dreaency? I didn’t know yet

Up until now, I’d been the San Diego transplant who got swept into the orbit of an enight After Gideon: Round Two curled in a corner licking her wounds and would be for a long tiine that I’d ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon

For better or worse, he was my soul mate

The other half of me

In many ways, he wasdone," I said decisively

"I want a new haircut

So short and flirty and chic

I want ers and toes

I want to be a new Eva"

Cary’s brows rose

"Nails, yes

Hair,decisions when you’re fucked up over a guy

They co it, Cary Taylor

You can either help or just shut up and watch"

"Eva!" Myto look a to do with your hair

You’ll love it!" Cary’s lips twitched

"All righty, then, baby girl

Let’s see what New Eva looks like"

New Eva turned out to be a ht blond hair was now shoulder length and cut in long layers, with platinu my face

I’d had my makeup done, too, to see what sort of look I should pair with ray for loss

In the end, I hadn’t gone with red for my nails and chose chocolate instead

I really liked it

For now, anyway