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She grabbed her wineglass and stor herself to du to sit there and try to uy who ran hot and cold every time she tried to connect with hiet pissed,” heup behind her

“Well, I a her iPad “Sometimes it’s like you want to have a conversation, you start it, then decide you don’t want to talk after all, and you blame me”

He rubbed at his forehead “And this is why I don’t have a girlfriend”

Ouch

Her irlfriend because you’re an ass”

“Heather”

But she was done He wanted to keep things light, fine, but she was not going to sit around and serve as his eoes both ways, you know” She threw the words out at him as she headed for the door “­Conversations—sorry, non-conversations—like this one are exactly why I don’t have a boyfriend”

“Hey, would you hold up aafter her

Heather spun around “Why, so you can sit here and dangle all sorts of conversation starters and then get pissy when I respond? You’re selling your dru the band, but don’t want to talk about that, either And God forbid we talk about what you ht want to do instead of the band, because you totally lose your shit”

His nostrils flared in irritation, his eyes turned flat and cold, and she suddenly had a very good sense of what the old Josh ht have looked like before he decided to be all devil- around in expensively tailored suits, barking orders at lowly peons, and going out for 400 power lunches

But although it was becoly clear that while there was an old Josh and a new Josh, nowhere to be seen was the real Josh

“Can we just hold on a second?” he said

“How about you come up with a list of safe topics, and then we’ll talk,” she snapped, reaching for the door handle and jerking it open “I’ot work to do”