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Besides, we’d still celebrated birthdays together and met once a week for a coffee break

Hisand suddenly he wanted to be taken ood idea to alienate all of his avid fe a year off to do an indie flick none of theht, and things had only unraveled since then

"Aw, coht "I was lonely"

"Buy a dog"

He laughed "Guys like ance I could really do without What happened to the guy who used to pull out a wos I’ into one"

"You’re funny" He grinned and cracked his knuckles again My right eye twitched Oh, hell "Hey, tell you what, why don’t we share a bottle of wine like we used to and forget this ever happened?" Was he really trying to use our past emotional connection to manipulate me? My throat ached with the swell of emotion as it continued to o I would have made it all better while he promised to be a better friend and client

Clearly, I wasn’t the same person any ive a multitude of sins?

Casey reached for ain

"No" I jerked my phone back and tossed it intothisa field day You wanna get taken seriously? Stop hitting on wo"

"What’s with you and this dog thing?" He raised his voice "I’"

"It’s like this," I said slowly "I’ to teach you how to be a responsible adult rather than a man so obsessed with his own penis he had a mold made of it to put in the otten complaints about my art"

"It’s not art"

"It’s art" He nodded "Ask the ladies"

"Look" I held out s to teach the other than therab you a goldfish, because at least if it goes belly-up I won’t feel like a puppy killer"

"Huh?" He snapped to attention "You want me to kill a puppy?"

"Lower your voice," I hissed

He blinked, his eyes a little too wide

I sighed "Are you high?"