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"Who was here?" I’ open the bathroom door

"Victor, cal a closet door, slahes cah-back chair in front of a desk where she riting sos and stares atdown

"He just wanted to talk" She shrugs "He wanted to knohere you were-"

"What did he say?"

"Victor-"

"Just answer oddamnit What did he say?"

"He wanted to talk," she says, shocked "He wanted to have soht sos up with you-whatever that means I said no thank you, of course, and-"

"Did you really?"

A long pause "I just had half a glass" She sighs "He wanted me to save it for you It’s over there in the ice bucket"

"And"-I breathe in-"what else?" Relief washes overIt was fine He was celebrating-what, I don’t know" She pauses, signifying so "He was sorry he missed you-"

"Yeah, I bet," I o with it "He’s worried about you"

"I don’t care," I say

"I said he’s worried about you," she exclai herself, shivering again

"Where?"

"I don’t know, Victor," she says "There was a party somewhere There was another party somewhere;"

"What party? Where?" I ask "It’s very important, Chloe"

"I don’t knohere he went," she says "Listen, we had sone, we chatted briefly and then he went off to a party What’s wrong with you? Why are you so frightened?"

Silence

"Who was he with, baby?" I ask

"He ith a friend," she says "Someone who looked like Bruce Rhinebeck but I don’t think it was Bruce"