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“No”

“That’s not what I round of what I’ et a cup of coffee and talk This,” he gestured around the party in full swing, “isn’t really my scene”

Hers neither She’d talked with the board nificant others, had put in an appearance because she respected and adored Dr Luiz, even if she hadn’t quite forgiven him She was ready to leave But with Matthew?

Get a cup of coffee and talk It sounded so innocent

So te

“Fine Coffee Talk Nothing else”

But if it really was innocent, if she really believed she was just going for coffee and talk, why did every warning bell in Natalie’s head sound?

CHAPTER ELEVEN

MATTHEW LET NATALIEher farewells to several of their colleagues, to Dr Luiz and his wife He waited for her to leave, alone, kept an eye on her bozo ex to make sure the idiot didn’t follow, and within fifteen minutes made his own farewell rounds and left the party still in full swing

He half expected Natalie to have changed herin the coffee shop where they’d agreed to enius to see how torn she was about him

That he understood

There was a lot about her that had his insides torn as well But having seen her ex pawing at her seeood intentions

When he arrived at the coffee shop, she was sipping on a cup of so on her phone To the casual observer, she looked calm Mattheasn’t a casual observer He noticed the little tremor in the hand that held her phone, the way she moistened her lips several ti

For what? For strength to tell hiet lost? For him not to stand her up? Or maybe the opposite;her soainst him?

So monumental