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"Pretty ed to keep the Valium comment to myself out of respect for Rubes"

"I’ So tellin a huht your kind only socialized with itself"

As his stare narrowed, she thought, Gotcha

A coupleto huff off and leave her to Uber hoht be lyers, one by one "That’s a cashhs as much as this bar And your accent screams multi-millions and a bloodline back to the first tiin sneezed Honestly, you stretch those vowels out any longer and we’re going to have to put you on life support"

He recoiled, and for a second, so crossed his face But it was too quick and she didn’t know hih to read it

"Maybe I’ood enunciation"

"Bone structure," she ticked off

"Plastic surgery"

"That signet ring"

"Pawn shop"

"FYI, this is the best I’ve ever done at playing tennis"

As he laughed again, she shrugged "Why don’t you want to be who you are? Most folks in the species would kill to be in the aristocracy"

"How about you? Do you want that?"

Ivie took a drink to buy herself so watered down in her glass She’d ordered the V&T even though she usually wasn’t into alcohol, to take the edge off that failed job interview But with this guy sitting next to her? She found herself wanting her brain to function at its highest level

"The ed "Iclothes from Nordstrom Rack and shoes fro to have to agonize bethether you’re buying the Porsche or the Rolls--and then say, Screw it, I’ll take them both"

"There’s a ‘but’ in this state I’m not sure aristocrats are any happier than I aiven all the social restrictions on them But more to the point, froreat equalizer If you’re sick or old, it doesn’t matter what your bank account or your fa?"

She glanced over at hiot lost in his lashes Jeez, they made Kyle Jenner look like an alopecia patient And his weren’t fake

"Do you like what you see?" he said in a quiet voice

"Nurse!" she blurted too loudly "I’m a nurse I work at Havers’s As a nurse"

That chuckle of his was grating as all get out "Sounds rewarding--"

"Listen, could we just stop right here" She pushed her tall glass away and got her purse and coat from the back of her chair As she rose to her feet, she offered him a professional smile--the same one she used when she had to take out a catheter "It was nice to meet you, blah, blah, blah, but let’s cut the crap and stop wasting good oxygen on this going-nowhere conversation I aet picked up in bars--or anywhere else, for that ood reason why anext to me"

"No reason? How about the fact that I saw you and I wanted to talk to you"

"I said no ‘good’ reason There are a lot of bad ones" She went back to ticking things off on her fingertips "You’re o homental shellan and your two perfect kids You have a fetish that involves feet, bunny ears, Krazy Glue in strange places, or erbils You have a bet with so et the plain girl’s nu for a victie Maybe you’re et abducted by aliens at et it in onehere? I can keep going"

The sly beautiful

As in she literally couldn’t breathe as she looked at him

"I am so impressed you used ‘nookie’ in a sentence"