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"Please don’t be mad," he says "Lola called to tell me you were here I was on my way to meet you three for dinner Also, Harlowwith any other protruding appendages if I didn’t treat you the way you deserved"
"I’ to clear it "I justI can’t believe you’re actually here"
"You thought I would just stay there and fix it at some random point in the future? I couldn’t be so far frolad"
I can tell he wants to ask, So why did you leave like that? Why didn’t you at least tell ive hih my entrance into and departure from France were both impulsive, he was the reason both times: one blissful, the other heartbroken At least he see on hts, below my short dance skirt
"You look beautiful," he says "In fact, you look so beautiful I’m a little at a loss for words"
I’m so relieved I burst forward He curls into h to wrap several times around my waist I can feel his breath on ainst ood," he just nods, and our eo on forever
His lips findHis breath is war in French, some words I can’t translate but don’t need to I hear love and life anders shaking ondeeper--but the way I’ainst him seems to promise him that there’s so much more, because he pulls back and looks victorious
"Let’s go, then," he says, di for him, for us to be alone, but somehow even more excited just to have hi his arm, I pull him to my car
ANSEL PUTS HIS dress shirt back on as he talks about his flight, the odd feeling of leaving just after work and arriving here at dawn and then having to wait all day to see es of the bigger What Now? I steal glances at hi sky behind hieous in his lavender button-down and sli fro If ent back to irls, to thank them And maybe more important, to let him thank them
I slip on some more functional flats and take hi hie thatin a curved booth, sipping drinks, and Lola sees me before Harlow does Dammit if her eyes don’t ihing For all her tough exterior she is such a sap "We aren’t doing that"
She laughs, shaking her head and sweeping thes, ofeach other as if they’re the best of friends and merely haven’t seen each other for a while