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“Maybe I just haven’tof which, do you know if Liv is dating anyone?” He spun around on the bar stool

My hackles rose “We’re not doing that again”

“Doing what?” His big puppy-dog eyes weren’t fooling anyone

“This infatuation thing you’ve got for her You’ve been chasing her since fourth grade She’s not interested” I stabbed my fry into some ketchup

“She said yes to a date after Declan’s wedding We squeezed in two dates that suet back to classes, and before that, we lived states apart for five years You can’t count that”

“And you’ve been in the same city for two and a half years”

“At different schools”

“Colh your mouth”

“That’s why you need to put in a

good word for me” He rested his elbows on the counter

I squeezed the back of e his mind about”

“Just promise me the next time you see her, you’ll tell her I asked about her See how school is going That’s what killed it last time She said if it weren’t for all her pre me”

“She said that?” My skin tingled, and I wiped one out with him a couple times, but to hear that the only reason she’d stopped was because of classes…shit!

He shrugged “Well, she said we’d both be busy once the school year started and we should focus on our futures”

Now that sounded more like Liv