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“Four”

“Four?” I blink up at him “It would take me a year to work up to that”

“You stay in shape” He eyeswith Jo”

“First of all, I went jogging with Jo like four times and you happened to see me one of those times Second, Jo only runs one mile a day Third, I do Pilates It’s nal towardlike a total douche, is really all I care about”

“That’s fair” Mitch lets out a deep chuckle that I feel all the way to o with your date?”

“It ell”

“Not well enough for hih”

“Do you judge how every date does by whether or not they stay over?”

“Yes”

I shake le”

“Why are you still single?” He shoots me a look

“I don’t know I guess I like it this way There’s a certain freedo tied down to a man”

“There’s a certain freedo tied down by a man” His eyes smolder as he says the words and I can’t not think about hi me down to a surface

“Yeah” I look away quickly “Well, maybe I’ll experiment with that with Austin”

“Sha you’d experiment with me”

“Mitch” I stop walking just outside of the apartns like that at ht now”

“Because I still affect you”

“Yes” I keep h you shouldn’t”