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A lot of the custo hello, and that makes me feel not quite so alone

"Hey, Katie!"

I turn around to find Will, Berta’s nephew, hovering behindafter work tonight?"

"Oh, probably just heading ho I can’t uard She’s hopeful that we’ll start dating, proood boy who could use a girl likein here

There’s nothing wrong with him, honestly

Other than the fact that he’s not his a painful lue your ht out on Copper Mill Road Live bandkegsYou should come" His eyes shift down to my chest--only accentuated by the fitted "Becker’s" T-shirt--before ht At least he has the decency to blush

"Thanks, Will I’ll keep that in roup of his college friends at a booth And it reht now, attending Tisch, living ers and sodas at a diner in Alaba over a man I unintentionally fell in love with

With a deep, cal a table of its dishes Katie Ford from Ohio never enrolled at Tisch She never stripped for a living She never s, nor will she ever I can’t let that silver lining disappear within the suffocating black cloud

A round of laughter erupts froirls playfully flicks his ear, thea purple streak on the underside of her hair

I sers

I wonder how Ginger’s doing I wonder if Katie Ford has any hope of evera friend like her I’ve already reconciled myself to the fact that she’ll never find aat this very moment If he’s out in the club or hidden in his office

If he’s thinking about me

If he misses me

Or if he has already moved on

Chapter forty-five

CAIN

It took Sa for you," Nate announces from my office entrance as John and I watch the tall man in a charcoal-colored suit over the monitor I kneas him the second I laid eyes on him Dan left his files for me with the requireladly followed instruction, except for that one picture of Charlie, of course That one, I folded up and tucked into my pocket, to pull out whenever I felt the need