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A sigh froht At least then I won’t have to sleep with Whelan anyhed Jay heard the clinking of glasses Then the sound of glass breaking

He looked at his hand and the shards of hisinto his skin Blood in and spread over the pristine white tablecloth

But he didn’t feel the pain He’d gone nuht hi hi him was because he had morethat his jerky movement pushed the table toward the other end of the booth andnoise on the polished wooden floor Nor did he care about the cuts on his hand

He tossed a twenty on the table and took a few steps to face the booth with the three wo hi, the wolances

"What?" Deborah asked, looking over her shoulder

Jay aze

"Oh, hi, Jay, I didn’t--"

He raised a hand, the uninjured one "Spare me" He motioned to the piece of paper in the middle of the table "And you can takea calculating woman who’s clearly only after my money"

He enjoyed the moment when the penny dropped for Deborah She didn’t even try to deny it, knowing she was caught

"If I ever get ive a rat’s ass about ed toward the door It opened just as he reached it He almost bureeted hi Milton, do you o somewhere else? This isn’t really ht, realizing too late that he’d left his coat at the coat check But he had no intention of going back into the restaurant where Cassie and Sharon were right now consoling his ex-girlfriend and probably already convincing her that maybe Whelan wasn’t such a bad catch after all Poor Whelan

As Jay hailed a cab, his heart turned to stone From now on, he would be very careful whom he opened his heart to The first hint that a wo her in the dust