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"Hey, I’ "Take a bite"

A flicker of a s It’s time to relax and play it differently I reach intoup my shirt a littlee in my jeans I offer her a Mentos

"You really look like you work out," I say "How do you keep in such buff shape, doll?"

"Not eating helps," shethe Mentos?"

She sht?" I ask

"To the Copa? The Copacabana? The hottest spot north of Havana?" she asks, clapping her hands together, eyes ith fake delight

"Hey, don’t be dissing me, sistah"

"Where’s Chloe now, Victor?" she asks, nificant other, baby?"

"An ex-rogue trader Iseminar, then Gavin Rossdale," she says "Oh, and Adam Sandler for three days"

"Oh shit" I smack my forehead "Now I knoho you are Now I re up "Who are you dating now, Victor?" She pauses "Besides Alison Poole?"

"Hey, I thought that name wasn’t allowed in this apartment" "Only someone ns a voodoo doll of her with five hundred pins stuck in its head and an extra-large Snickers bar strapped to its ass can," she says "Noho are you dating, Victor? Just say it Just let me hear you say a name"

"Four that wanna own me, two that wanna stone me, one that says she’s a friend ofover the bed

"Can I ask you so?" I ask

"Can you?"

"You won’t freak out?"

"It depends"