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“That’s what I’one anywhere”

I leaned forward “Listen, is this because I didn’t call you or anything? I guess I didn’t know that hat you wanted Thought it was a fun, one-off kind of thing”

And it hat I’d thought Was she suggesting she’d wanted it to be so more?

Her reply was quick and sharp “No Not that More that I never do anything like e did One-night stands aren’t h”

I wanted to say so in ue the contrary when you’re speaking to soot years of evidence to the contrary of whatever you’d have to say

“Haven’t been in a while” I was being truthful Well,of a while, but still “And I’s about what happened”

“It’s not that”

“Then you have good feelings about it?”

“Not really that either”

“Then totally, completely neutral”

“Just don’t like rewarding bad behavior”

“Might be how I’d describe you in the back of my car”

Another eye-narrowing, and I realized she was about hitting her li about herthe old Josh co, who never took a da seriously in his life

I decided to keepmyself into an even deeper hole

“Well, whatever It’s done, and that’s it And now you’re going to be buying out od-knoith it”

“We’re keeping things as-is The reason we picked MacLand-Glass was because of the talent—it’d be pointless to toss all that aside”

“I suppose we’ll see what you’ve got in mind for this place”

“You will And I hope you see that you’ve got nothing to worry about”

“Easy for you to say—you’re the one with all the power in this situation”

She was still having doubts, both aboutto change her ht then So, I decided to change the topic

“Anyway, Christ fun?”