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She shuddered Julie Greene didn’t do ht

“Caain “It’s not that I don’t respect your suggestions …”

“Oh?” Cahtened bob sway ever so slightly, and Julie froze Over the years, Julie had come to think of Camille’s usually immobile hair as her “tell”—when it et really messy

Up until now, it had never been Julie’s life

In the six years that she’d been working for Camille as a full-time columnist, this was the first time Julie had received a direct order on a story topic Even when Julie had been fresh out of college with nothing but a handful of internships under her belt, Caiven her wide latitude on what to write about

Julie knew that Cament So ith the sudden power trip?

It didn’t make sense Julie was one of Stiletto’s best colued her writers to play to their strengths Julie’s niche was the single readers with the drea in love After that, they were on their own

Julie sat up straighter Wait, no That wasn’t entirely true Readers did have so

Grace Brighton

“Why not have Grace do it?” Julie asked excitedly “She’s your relationship guru”

“And here I thought you and Grace were both urus”

“We are,” Julie agreed quickly “It’s just that we each have our own expertise Anything having to do with long-term relationships is Grace’s”

Ca coral “And hoould you describe yourself?”

Julie’s heel jittered beneath the desk in frustration Camille knew full hat Julie’s expertise was Everyone at the Stiletto office did Heck, half the women in Manhattan knew Julie by naazine to work at The Dating, Love, and Sex departhton, and Riley McKenna were Dating, Love, and Sex, respectively

Julie answered slowly “I’ hi”

“Middy first few dates to the comfortable, committed stuff that Grace writes about?”

Julie’s ood way to tell the editor in chief of the country’s largest woazine that you’d never bothered to think about what happened after And sure, ht think Julie a little insubstantial But she illing to bet those saa pants and hts

“Uuess it sort of evolves?” Julie replied finally

“How?”

“With the right person, it just happens That

’s the mystery of what makes true love so special” Gawd, I almost made myself vomit

Cah You’ve seen the letters from our readers They want to know the specifics These are women who’ve already had the third date They’ve even been on the seventh But then what? How do they move forward?”