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"No, it isn't," he replied, his tone firrown sick of herin my life Good riddance"

I nodded, glad she wouldn't be invited I still wasn't cos she'd said aboutsexually assaulted by Blaine to Luke to convince him to leave me

Still, it had to be painful for Luke, even if he didn't admit it She was the onlyher support had to be hard

I hoped my love for him would make up for it

Correction: I would do everything in my power to make up for it

Chapter Two

Luke

Soht

I didn't knohat it was, but so in the way Jonathan Randall listened to my final pitch told me that he never intended to invest in the joint venture I was proposing He had the bearing of a ood the deal and no matter how much money he could possibly make

"So," I said when I'd finished the pitch, a sense of futility building inside of hts? Do you have any questions?"

Randall shrugged, noncommittally "Not really Like I said, I'll have to think about it for a while It's a big risk, investing in the space race"

"Big risk, but big reward," I said, pointing to the chart on the wall, showing how rown in the past decade

We spoke for another ten oodbye, shakingit was one of those 'Don't call us, we'll call you' situations

In other words, he was not going to join Astra Investments and invest in the project

Once he left on the elevator, I returned to the boardroo up the presentation materials