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"Rule number one, never fall for a client, especially not over the phone! Ashley, come on! He can be anyone You don't know hiuy He could be an ex-con with a tattooed face for all you know"
"Actually, you're wrong I do knoho he is, and that's the problem"
I watch as she chokes on her chane "Now you've lost me I don't understand"
"Do you remember Arsen from Scorcher's? Intensely blue eyes, hot body, and billion dollar playboy?"
"THE Arsen Hawke? Sure I ?"
"Well, last night I found out that Arsen is the client He's the sa that froHenry' We were having the etting hi me come so hard every tiet hi up with Arsen—dinner, drinks, sex, and I foundaway fro for a man on the other end ofIt didn't feel right to be falling in love with two separate people"
"Wait a minute You're in love with Arsen Hawke?" Yasood majority of my story
I nod my head but before I can respond she says, "You and ever other girl in New York City! Coest playboy in this city!"
"That's the thing I think he loves me too—at least that's what he'd said I've really fallen for hio anyways Now I don't knohat to think"
"What happened last night?" she asks
I stare off at the happy couples brunching, se juices, as I recall the events of the Boathouse "That's when everything ca to the surface like some horrific car accident He ad into my sex line He said it so casually, as if it were the easiest thing in the world I can still hear hiht as those words left hisI kneasn't lying—he couldn't have possibly known about that caller any other way—and it felt like everything I'd knoas a lie"
Yasne and pushes her croissant around her plate a bit with the tips of her fake, neon-pink nails "I don't know… it just sounds so weird, don't you think? The whole notion that you can fall in love with someone just over the phone"
"I don't want to sound cheesy, but until last night, nothing felt weird at all—it all felt like fate, Yas"
"Fine, fine," she says, throwing in the towel to her argu an idiot That's what I think Go get Mr Perfect You loved him on the phone, and you loved him in real life"
"How can you say that? You make it sound so easy I was lied to, re"