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Walter went for the bar “Let’s have a round on the way there Jonas’s parties can be a tad on the stuffy side” He turned his attention to me “Cassidy? What’ll you have?”

“Uross, but as soon as I’d said retted it

“Didn’t know you were a teetotaler,” Sa a sip of his drink

I had no idea howwould’ve looked bad, but it seeured I wanted a clear head to ht?

“I know for a fact she’s not,” said Josh But he stopped hi that the conclusion of that sentence was “because we got drunk and hooked up”

“Actually, throw a little bit of vodka in there,” I said

Walter slad you did after the thirtieth time you have to talk about how you two met”

“Very cute story, by the way,” said Sam

It reat at telling lies before, and I was beginning to reht Ithe truth andit a little bit

Not to h the party h this And he’d been a pretty great teammate so far

The rest of the drive ithout incident, Walter givingahead So many rich people Sure, I’din my field, but these weren’t just any rich people—they were the ones I’d grown up with Kind of

I i all the kids froht along with Josh Would they still look at me the same way? Or would they see me in the same way Sam did, as so?

And, of course, I didn’t even have the ability to losedrunk to deal with probleht in that a cocktail or tould ale off But it was the same story—I could barely sto enough to not look suspicious

After fifteen inor, another night of keeping it together

All I could think about was if and when it would finally be too much to take

Chapter 28

JOSH

The first hour at the party went by in a blur Cass and I zipped around the place, shaking hands and accepting congratulations The conversationswith