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“Are you even listening to me?”

Ah, heck

I push the phone back up againsteven though she’s not here to see them “Yeah, I’m here I think the callabout a naked Alexander again Yeah, so I wasn’t going to call the nuue when ato Alexander—and that troubleso muscle had floated to the very top of ain when I ca to his assistant

He didn’t give me his number He was done with me

It’s probably for the best

“I just don’t get where your reluctance is coain

“Because of who recoave me the nu with a swanky eency I was offered a job the same day Suspicious? Just a little bit How can I even consider it, given our history? Our very brief history, but still

“So, you spent the night with the guy Like you said, if the circumstances had been different, he’d still be too old for you”

“That’s not exactly what I said” Because, with age, coirl cross-eyed with delight

“Besides, it’s not like he personally offered you a job”

“If he had,” Iaway a piece of lint from my hastily ironed interview skirt, “I would’ve told him where he could shove it”

I couldn’t work for a man I’ve slept with Another break up, and where the heck would I end up this tiolia, maybe

“Sure, you would have,” she replies softly because h that clusterphuck “But it’s not as if that has happened For starters, you’re not in a relationship with hiency he thought ht be able to help And then, when you ister in so much as a raised eyebrow”