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"Okay," I say "Y’all win It’s pretty cool" I take a long drink and finish off ht to have fun with uy?" I ask, which prompts Jamie to crane her neck and look around

"Unless he fell off the roof, he’s here sooserious about this guy?" Ollie asks her "I ine you could want anyone else"

He is clearly teasing, but underneath I think I hear a hint of wounded pride I hope that I’ it For his sake, for Jamie’s sake, and mostly for Courtney’s

"Yeah," Ja’ We’re not there yet But, well, yeah"

"Good," Ollie says curtly

I frown, trying to think of so comes to mind

"Now, if you want to talk serious …" Ja mischievously

I smile innocently "A lady never tells"

"It’s too damn soon," Ollie says shortly "And--" He cuts hi just worries me Stark worries ive it a rest?"

I’ht that the Ollie-Daht after reen chaue

"That’s why I love her," Ollie says, hooking an arm around Jamie "She tells it like it is and doesn’t take my shit"

"And what?" I ask "Courtney doesn’t tell you when you’re being a prick?" It is bad forht now, and I know it But I’m pissed Besides, I’, and although I’ve never actually been a bestdown the groo an asshole

"No," Ollie says seriously "She doesn’t" He bends down and sits on the edge of the water-filled mattress inside the pod His body shifts and rolls, and he reaches out and grabs the redroof "She just waits until all the shit has built up and then she breaks up withthe way our seat sloshes beneath us "I thought you weren’t going to let any ain, off-again for years This is the first tiement I really like Courtney, and I hope it works out But theto fuck it up yet again Or, to be more accurate, that he already has fucked it up

"I’pen," Ollie says "Shit just follows me around Not all of us lead the charmed life of a certain billionaire we know"