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“Do you think we could pick up where we left off?”
“No”
She cringed
He reached over to grasp her hand “I still have feelings for you But I’ht now Even if I were, we can’t just pick up where we left off We’re both different people”
“You don’t seem that different”
“I am Trust me”
Allison squeezed his hand “I’ve never trusted anyone more I was jealous of Julia Of the way you said her name Because that’s how you used to say my name But I broke up with you and you fell for sos worked out between you two But they didn’t”
Paul took another long pull from his beer and shook his head
On January second, Paul had to leave for the Modern Language Association’s annual convention, which was being held in Seattle All his interviews for prospective jobs would take place during the convention
Allison drove hiton Before he exited the car, she gave hi
“It’s just soht even be a book in there”
Paul thanked her with a smile
“What’s the book?”
“Sense and Sensibility”
He looked at her quizzically “Why are you giving ful”
“Thanks,” he said “I think”
“You’re welcome I’ll ed her into a warhtly before pressing a gentle but insistent kiss to his lips She was surprised but elated when he didn’t recoil but rather deepened their connection
“I’ll be hoed, when they finally pulled the until he disappeared into the terminal
Chapter Seventy-one
January 10, 2012
New York, New York
Christa Peterson breezed into the Department of Italian at Columbia University She’d enjoyed a very pleasant winter break at her parents’ home in Toronto and had even met soer to resu a Dante specialist
With interest, she e on a chair nearby in order to peruse it Much of the le typewritten announcement Christa scanned it quickly
The announcement listed the na the department over the course of the next teeks, as candidates for the vacant professorship Christa read the na in her chair
She smiled But not because of the names listed
No, she smiled because a particular nae herself on Professor Giuseppe Pacciani was already bearing fruit
With that delightful thought in mind, she pocketed the announcement, threw the junkto exit the department when Professor Barini stopped her