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"Bye" I watched her hurrying down the street and said a quick prayer for her She was hoping to get this part-time bartender job that had been advertised in the laundroot it, it would definitely help us as we both looked for new jobs I took a deep breath and ran down to catch the train This was it My old life was about to end, and in

I didn’t have the heart to break up with Matt over dinner It just seeratulate him on his promotion and then dump him in the next breath I decided to do it in his apart I wanted him to knohat I had done and why, so he could understand that he had done nothing wrong The reason I was ending things wasn’t because I no longer liked him It was because I was still in love with someone else

We walked into his apartet a bottle of wine He seeht that tonight was going to be the night that we consulasses of red wine and I took et ht

"What movie do you want to watch?" He shifted closer to me on the couch and I tried not to recoil

"Actually, I was hoping we could talk" I took a deep breath and he frowned at me

"Sure, but what do you want to talk about?"

"It’s over, Matt I can’t go out with you anymore," I blurted out, and I was surprised that his face remained the same Even the expression in his eyes didn’t look shocked or upset

"I see" He nodded and sipped some more wine "Why is that?"

I took a deep breath and let it out "About seven years ago, I dated a guy A successful business I waited for hiet him, but I couldn’t" I chewed on o, I decided that I was going to try to see his were there I wanted to see if we could give the relationship another go"

"Okay"

"I didn’t want it to be a one-off encounter" I sighed "I wanted us to be around each other I wanted to see if perhaps we couldhim I found a lot of articles about him Business stuff, you know And I realized that the best way for et back into his life would be if I went to work for him But I knew that he liked to flip coet in with a company before he did, so it wouldn’t look suspicious So I needed to get a contact, someone who knew a lot about business"

"And that’s where I came in?" Matt raised an eyebrow and I nodded