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Codergirl: Andreas won’t like that

OnBroadway: Even better

Codergirl: You’re a troublemaker

OnBroadway: I can be

She let out a sh, only a little eht have heard She looked around and realized Andreas atching her, his expression brooding

Her phone buzzed with another text and she looked at it

OnBroadway: Just don’t make the same mistake I did

Codergirl: What’s that?

OnBroadway: Being afraid to take a chance on a friend

People said that emails and texts didn’t convey e behind Jacob’s last string of words

Codergirl: What happened?

OnBroadway: I lost my friend and the chance at more

“More texts froly htness around his eyes and the tension filling his posture as he stood towering over her chair

“Yes, giveafter that kind of admission

Codergirl: I’uy

OnBroadway: I have my career

It wasn’t enough, though, or Jacob wouldn’t have advised her to go for Andreas Kayla understood loneliness

“Tell Jacob hello, but it’s not safe to text and walk”

Meaning they were going to be walking again very soon

She looked up at Andreas “Are you bored, boss?”

His jaent rigid “Not your boss We haveto do”

“You are being rude”

“In ay?” He leaned against the wall by her chair, and he ranite, crossed arms and muscles bunched with tension

She waved her phone at him “I am in the middle of a conversation”

“During our date,” Andreas bit out

What? They were on a date? How had she not realized that?

He was talking again before she could get her whirlingon le text?”

“No”

“Because my attention is entirely on you”

Wow Okay This day was so not what she thought it had been Nothing had been unexpected He’d planned it as a date and all the sensuality had been part of it

“I thought you were busy looking at DIY”

He shrugged “I get that I also get that you are not the one invested in repairing ties that you frayed”

But Andreas was He ht not love her, but Andreas cared more about their relationship than any other one in his life

That mattered to Kayla A lot

“We were having kind of an intense conversation Let oodbye”

Andreas nodded, his expression closed He stepped away to give her privacy

Codergirl: Off to see hts TTYL

She felt a strange relief and a thrill of happiness when Andreas took her hand as they left the bookstore He see his hold on her hand to guide her along

For her part, she was just happy to take in all the color and texture Touristsquickly with a clear destination inevery couple of feet to take pictures It was a ical mishmash of humanity