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With that, she turned around and wandered off to the staff roo a tune that sounded suspiciously like Ed Sheeran

I stared at the book club books and sighed

Talk about deflated

I

I did need to get over et over what had happened

And if I was honest, I wasn’t at all surprised that Sebastian had tricked ue with him—it was because he’d always, always been able to tie uetwith him even if I didn’t want to, and that was exactly what he’d just done to me

Goddamn it

I unfurled ers and looked at the crumpled piece of paper It moved as it had the freedom to open itself, and

It hadn’t changed a bit

Unbidden, a sed at my lips at the familiarity of his messy scrawl, and my eyes darted back and forth across his number

I should have tossed it in the trash

I should have burned it

Threw it down the toilet

Drowned it in the sink

Done anything with it but what I did

And that was tuck it into the back pocket of , long gone

Daers are one and the sa

at least it’s legal to throw books people… not so muchI stared at my phone

I’d put Sebastian’s nuanization, I did have a habit of being on the forgetful side There was every chance I’d lose Sebastian’s number, so that hy it was in my phone

At least that’s what I was telling myself

I was really great at lying to myself

I sighed and putto text hi Sebastian Stone

God only knew nothing good had co him twice