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But Lance, the asshole and s asshole that he was, didn’t seerinned and took his seat on the couch beside her, only a cushion between them

“It’s okay,” Lance said, and gave hertie seeing ain”

Her mother didn’t see and saccharine s conversation

The entire time Mary sat beside hi her made her feel like a speci about the guest list, and everyone else was engaged in other talk, so when Lance shifted closer, Mary felt her spine straighten He leaned in close and started speaking so low only she could hear

His Polo cologne was subtle yetreflex rise

Whispering so only she could hear Lance said, “Since you didn’t want to see h to run into your aze on her, saw in her peripheral that he atching her “It’s so good to see you” He , not that she would have

Her mother drew him into the conversation, and she exhaled God, she wanted Alex here yet she didn’t She didn’t want hi with her dra close to Alex made her feel like the shit of her past was just that… shit from her past

For a half-hour, Mary’s mom incorporated Lance into any and all conversations that were started, and the joy in her ut Then again, she couldn’t blame her mother wholly on her reaction to Lance It wasn’t like Mary had told anyone about the shit with Lance and why they’d broken it off

Maybe if she had, Mary wouldn’t have been in this situation right now Maybe if she’d told herher to have sex, and when Mary had told hione out and cheated on Mary with her friend, her hed at his stupid ass jokes

Maybe Maybe Maybe

“You tere such a gorgeous couple,” herreflex “I never did understand why the two of you broke up”

Mary shifted, the situation going from bad to worse “It’s been two years, e”