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"So, let’s decide already Italian or Mexican?" I asked

She blew out a breath and rolled her eyes "Just think about it Give her some space She may just coenda"

Well, that advice sounded familiar "Is this where you pull out your inspirational keychain with the picture of a butterfly and the saying that if you love so you should set it free?"

Her lips twisted into a dry s like that" She turned and walked out of the kitchen "Coo eat"

I followed her out and we did enjoy a pleasant lunch--ht up Eain, at least Like I said, Lindsay wasn’t du around in my mind This was the reason E a doctor, her original goal since she was a child, than she did about this new relationship full of unknowns

In trying to secure her, I had pushed her away because I had arrogantly assumed that I was the nu her that she wasn’t the nu toto realize how ridiculously unfair I had been in that The real question as it too late for me to fix it?

Chapter Thirteen

The next day was Sunday and I had very little to do in theout to be the worst The loneliness threatened to rise up and suffocatemy hardest to resist my old fallback--work There was plenty to do, but today I wouldn’t allow it I couldn’t fall into those old patterns again

But it called to a in and get stuff done It will be so productive After an hour, you can log off Or s

But I’d prove towork e-mail Because once I fell down that rabbit hole, it was a steep-ass cli soodforsaken mountain trail to reclaimon DE would not be in complete violation of this Sunday work blackout So I started up the gaed on to roup I used to play as on We often played together on Sundaythe tradition

I checked my friends list

Your friend, Eloisa, is online Eed, is online Heath

Your friend, Persephone, is online Kat

They were all here I checked their location Golden Mountains Region They orking on the big secret quest I resisted the urge to run the coame texts to each other They used voice, h Like the rest of the players of Dragon Epoch, roup had erroneously concluded that the Golden Mountains quest chain actually started in the Golden Mountains region instead of where the very first clue actually hid, in plain sight of all

I smiled deviously at the screen It had been months since the launch of the expansion and no one was any closer to figuring out the da than they had been when it had started If people didn’t start getting clues to that thing soon, I was certain we’d have a riot on our hands--a massive player revolt Maybe even a sit-in demonstration at DracoCon Already there were sites that claimed that the quest was a myth or a hoax or hadn’t even been finished and i they were The idea for that quest had sprung into a-ter in order to iive up those clues easily Not even to the wo enuine, but they’d been so vague as to be useless and she’d known it I hit the co seen--an ability that could only be used by employees of the company--and traveled to their location I’m not sure what I wanted to acco the of trolls, I decided I was bored It would be more fun if I could play with them

I wasn’t sure how Emilia would react, but at that point I didn’t care They were my friends, too, and I deserved to spend a little time with them, even if E of it as creepy stalking, but I was detere distance in the virtual world that I was currentlyin the real one