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“Have you thought about it? Really thought about it? What your life will look like again without him in it?”

I had

It was hollow and empty and cold

But it would be et to have

“These are for sale, right?” A female voice drew us out of our conversation A tourist stood at the stall wearing a curious expression, glancing between us

I forced a s apart, and gestured to my jewelry “Yes And it’s all handmade”

Bailey was right I needed to say no to Kell Summers Maybe even hell no!

Gazing around the conference rooave an unhappy lurch It had been a week since the carnival, I’d avoided Michael and all the serious thoughts that came with him, but I had not avoided Kell Summers

Kell had set up tables in two long roith chairs opposite each other for the speed-dating event The roo with familiar and not-so-familiar faces, so I surmised that the rumors were true The event had attracted people from all over the county

Dating was no big deal to me

I’d started serial dating in my mid-

twenties, and I’d used every app and online dating site available Dating had led one on dates in Philadelphia, Maryland, and New Jersey Very few of those dates had turned into anything rese a relationship, and as soon as I realized that’s what it was, I’d walked away

The longest “relationship” I’d been in ith Jeff King I’d considered it , but it had lasted threeserious, but the sex was so good, I hadn’t wanted to give hireat He reminded me a little of Michael However, he wasn’t Michael, and when it becas off It wasn’t fair to Jeff, or to any man, to be with a woman who could never love him the way he deserved

I’d returned to , and it was a way to pass the tih to be fair, my vibrator did a better jobshouldn’t have bothered me

Yet, it bothered me