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"Both," I’d adabout the pictures he’d taken and shivered slightly I tried not to i himself while he did

Chloe cleared her throat and pulled a few periodicals from her box I blinked, hard, and looked down at the journals in front offrouys danced for, like, three songs, too Did you just ht?"

Was she a mind reader? What in the actual hell, Chloe?

I didn’t look up, and instead mumbled, "Yeah, we juston Friday"

"He’s gorgeous," she said

Poke Poke

I could feel her gaze on me Chloe was the least subtle poker in the world She dropped a hint like a strike fighter drops boeous?"

Finally I looked up at her and rolledto swoon for you over Max Stella He seehed and shoved a few books on the shelf "Fine Just ht under his spell He sounds like a great guy, but yeah, definitely a player At least he’s up front about it, though"

She watched led to not react to that It was a fair dig on Andy, and was the kind of thing she could say in a year or two and we’d both laugh and say, "I know, right?"

But for now her words just kind of dissolved into aard silence

"Sorry," sheDid you know that Max and Bennett went to school together?"

"Yeah, heabout that I didn’t know that Bennett went to college in England"

She nodded "Cae Max was his flat mate from their first day there He hasn’t shared many stories withher head as her attention returned to the books in front of her

I was supposed to be uninterested, coht? So I studied my thuether, Sara; your brain is so fixated on Max that you no longer sense pain? That’s pathetic

So how does one look when one absolutely does not care about the stories that Chloe may have heard? I mean, obviously the fact that he hasn’t shared ht?

I alphabetized a giant stack of periodicals, pretending to be engrossed Finally, the question felt like it was choking s did they do?"

"Just guy stuff," she said, distracted "Rugby Brewing their own beer and the insane parties after Taking the train to Paris and blah-blah escapades"

I wanted to strangle her "Escapades?"

She looked up suddenly, as if she re, and her dark eyes definitely had aof escapades"

My stoht, for like an hour! Where did you go?"

My face heated, and I clearedmy brow as if I had to work to remember "Oh, I just felt a little overwhelrounds"

"Da you ran into a hot caterer and got banged on a table"

A hoarse cough burst out, and hing

Chloe stood and got me a cup of water frorin "You are so busted You always start coughing when you’re freaking out"

"I’ liar who lies all the lies Tellabout Chloe’s dark brown eyes and patient s "There is nothing to tell"

"Sara, when you disappeared, you caone for an hour and looked" She tucked a long lock of brown hair behind her ear to reveal a devilish smile "You kno you looked Freshly fucked"

I cut a box open and pulled out a stack of designtheto the wohteenth-floor stairwell"

My head shot up and a laugh burst out I drank soh at bay "Holy crap, Chloe I didn’t know that detail" I considered this a littleI never used the stairs Gross That would have been super aard"

"We were ridiculous Nothing could be crazier than that" She shrugged and turned her nonjudgmental face on me "Or, could there be? You tell uy I met at the bar last week? The hot one?"

"Yeah?"

"He was there on Friday"

Her eyes narrowed, and I could see her gears cranking "At the fund-raiser?"

"Yeah He found me outside the restroom," I lied and looked out theso she wouldn’t see it in uess that’s why I lookeder, rumpled"

"When you say hooked up you mean?"

"Yeah In an empty ballroom" I looked up and met her eyes "On a table"

She let out a loud whoop and clapped her hands "Look at you, you wild thing"