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“You alht” I narrow my eyes at hi deal, Luke If you’d gotten arrested, it could’ve ruined every-fucking-thing”

“Ava, it’s fine Stop freaking out about it,” he retorts “I didn’t even coet arrested, and now, it’s over I iine it’ll be another fifteen years or so before I have to save you on Halloween again, and I’ll likely have achieved all I need to with NASA by that point,” he teases

“It’s not funny!”

“Sure it is,” he contests “The guy got pissed when he realized I wasn’t going to let hiet into your panties—because you ay too drunk to even knohat the hell was happening—and I set hiht The end”

“Jesus,” I say, sinking ht”

“Like I said, it’s no big deal” He reaches out to pat his hand on e Or should I say, Fanta under the bridge?”

“Sently with h you probably shouldn’t have, thanks for co if I’d woken up in some random dude’s apartment”

“Yeah, I figured you didn’t want that” He smirks, and his eyes make their way to the screen offocus “Why are you on a hookup site?”

“Dating site,” I correct hiree

“That most people use as a hookup site”

“Well, I don’t have a lot of options,” I sass back “I need to find a date to bring toout of time”

“You’re seriously going to go through with the planning circus?” he asks, and I nod

“Yes”

“Christ,” heto find a boyfriend to bring home for the holidays on TapNext?”

“What? You think I should choose Matchco to find so years now, Luke You know I don’t have that kind of time”

“I don’t think you should choose any of them, Ace,” he responds and wraps his arm around my shoulders “Wouldn’t it be easier if you just came clean with everybody?” he asks and o that route?”