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“I know, but ould’ve thought they’d treat you so shabbily?” I sigh as I stretch into the back of the van, pulling the lone box closer because obviously, not me

“Well, what’s done is done,” I say, lance over ht now?”

His eyes lift, his expression not at all apologetic “We should go out for a drink”

“So you can stare at ain

“Ia little more practically A little more hands-on” He has the audacity, no, the stupidity to rabby hands in the air

“I’ the box to the left before slaht-hand side door closed

“Okay, but seriously, I have a lot of contacts I was thinking I ht be able to help you find another job”

“Really?” Hope pierces ht turn out to be his weird version of a casting couch

“Absolutely But I’ood shoulder to cry on”

“Thanks, but I’ain But coe so far? I don’t need a shoulder to cry on Ito punch I could also do with a sweater as I fold my arms overout nals

“Come on, Holly I can tell you’re upset It looks like they fucked me over, too”

“So, what you’re saying is, we should get even by f—doing each other”

Why are ly persistent and won’t leave a girl’s dreams alone

Or at least, one man is

“You really don’t thinkat all” My conscience prickles for half a second until he adds, “Not that I’d turn you down or anything” He gives a wolfish sainst the van door, andup at him

“Seriously Let me take you out” His breath is a little puff of heat in the cold air between us He begins to slide his hands up and down e

“I’ht now”

“I bet I could make you feel better”

Despite his sive you that”

“I prefer tenacious”

“I would prefer it if you understood the word no”

He scrunches his nose, and I suddenly see o And self-assured Plus, he can string a pretty sentence together But I’ets woreat

“I don’t have difficulty with the word no Not that I hear it very often, which ht be part of the problem”