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Calliope laughed, which was exactly what she needed "How about a girl’s night out?"

"Sounds fabulous," Tori said "What do you have in ame for that"

They made plans to meet at one of their favorite Mexican restaurants in town She put on h-heeled boots, then slid into a sexy silk top instead of her day care center sweatshirts

Tonight, she intended to party

El Partido was a popular restaurant, especially on the weekends In a small town, entertainment was limited You went out to eat, you hit a bar, or you went to theif you were in the mood for those activities

Calliope was in the ht on the town They started out with a top-shelf arita, settled in at the bar and waited for their na line out front, it could be a while

"I haven’t seen you in like…forever," Tori said, her long earrings grazing her neck as she twisted her barstool around while juggling the oversized drink "I’ve otten together I’ve been busy"

Tori lifted her brows "Yeah? Busy doing what? Or should I ask…whom?"

"What do you know, or what do you think you know?"

Tori gave an innocent bat of her lashes "I just know Wyatt has been a lot less gruht have cracked a joke We thought the world was ending"

Calliope’s lips curved "Well, good for hioodto do with you"

Calliope shrugged "I’m not responsible for his moods"

"Uh oh He’s pissed you off What did he do?"

"Nothing He’s not responsible for "

She did, starting with the first night and every night since

Tori leaned an ararita, her expression changing as the story went on By the ti

"What an ass"

"He has a right to his space"

"Bullshit He sees you every night, and then suddenly blows you off with no explanation other than working on his car and so on"

"He’s not seeing anyone else It practically took an act of Congress for hinaled for a refill on their drinks "Isn’t that the truth? ThatHence his three-year badand ended that"

"Yeah"

"So how’s the sex?"

"Tori!"

Tori straightened in her seat "What? I want to kno the sex is Wyatt’s gorgeous Virile Studly"

Calliope took the fresh arita from the bartender and licked a spot of salt from the rim "Yum"

"The drink or the ht?"

"I wouldn’t be sitting here pissed off at hiured I always knew he had so under the surface of that testy exterior"

"I’iven the hots you have for Brody"

"I do not have the hots for Brody At All"

"You Lie"

"First, I work for him Second, I’ve known him since I was like…sixteen Third…"

Calliope waited while Tori tried to come up with another objection

Instead, Tori took a drink and Calliope laughed at her

"What?"

"Why haven’t you ever done anything about it?"

"About what?"

"Brody"

Tori rolled her eyes, then set her drink down and fiddled with the bracelets on her arets on , teases me too much and already has way too many women in this toho think the sun rises and sets on his perfect abs and great ass"

"And you’re not one of them"

"Hell, no I am not a member of the Brody Kent fan club Besides, we’re not here to talk aboutto do about Wyatt?"

"Nothing I can’t make him want to be with me"

"No, you can’t But why the sudden brakes on your relationship?"

"Maybe it’s run its course"

"After a feeeks?" Tori shook her head "I don’t think so There’s soure out what it is"

"I don’t want to talk to hi out with you, then have a giant enchilada"

"I think you’d rather have Wyatt’s giant enchilada"

Calliope nearly choked on her drink "Oh, rinned "Just here to state the facts, ht about what Tori had said all through drinks and dinner

She wasn’t a quitter, wasn’t one to sit back and let things happen Maybe all this togetherness had been too much too fast for Wyatt, but if so, she needed to hear that from him, not some flimsy excuse about stuff and cars She’d told hi she wanted froave him the weekend to do whatever "stuff" he had to do Mondayhis head in, looking to see if she was in there or even trying to find her the entire day

Yeah, so was definitely up

If the relationship had run its course and he wanted to be done with it, then he owed it to her to have a face-to-face conversation with her and tell her

So at the end of the workday, she stood at the entrance to her office while her staff shuffled the kids out the door to their parents She waved to the other guys orking on the roorabbed his tools on his way out the door, she stopped him