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I was supposed to be doing everything in ht of returning to the life I’d had before—if I was soers went numb This crisis was the reason I’d downed two martinis before Jessica even arrived Five minutes late

“Holy fuck!” she cried when she pulledtype relationship Jessica ht not have known just how fucked-up I was, but she was savvy to some of my problems with normal intimacy She’d respected that completelyuntil now But I melted into the eht up until I reer I was putting her in

So I gently pulled myself from her arms

Her eyes ran overas she took in the dress I’d put on for the dinner “Girl, I know you don’t worship at the altar of Gucci, so I also know you would not buy that dress, yet here it is, on your body” She sesture “Perfection We have a lot to catch up on, it seems”

I shtly “You have no idea”

I was planning on at least getting a drink and some salad into Jessica before I dropped the boer waited for nothing

She yanked my hand across the table the second we sat down

“Okay, either Pete got so, or you have a lotmy hand

I pulled on it so she’d let go and so I could take a large sip of ht about his lifeless eyes staring at nothing, the skin cut off, exposing flesh and bone “You were right about him”

“Of course I was,” she rolled her eyes “Asout of your et yourself a dianer duds?”

I sed “No I’ed”

“You’re engaged?” Jessica repeated, not quietly