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“I’uy said before he’d even reached us He couldn’t have looked more cliché douche if he’d tried “This is my friend John”

How fitting The quiet one locked eyes with e to look around for better options

“Thanks for these,” Payton said “We were thirsty I’ her to consider joiningclients”

“You tork together?” Todd asked He sne factory when it had exploded

“No,” she continued, “but I think she’d like it”

“What do you do?”

“I’m an escort”

Todd blinked, stunned Then, a save us a look at his too-white teeth

“Oh, yeah? Me too What kind of benefits do you get? Dental? Vision?”

“No need for the vision, I wear a blindfold during Both my clients and I like our anonymity”

“Of course,” he said, see “So, Evie, are you—”

“That’s et to call her that, only friends and family do Her name is Evelyn”

Her sweet, oddly possessive streak over reat love had dumped me His loser friends knew me by the nickname, and after a disastrous run-in with theo, she decreed the name from now on had to be earned