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Of course.

Of – oh, by the goddess, of course he made his way to the cafe we used to visit when we were together. And just for the record, the last three words of that horrid sentence made me cringe internally, something fierce, considering it was Zack I was referring to.

Goddess above, I can not believe we used to be a thing back in the day considering how arrogant and vile he turned out to be.

That said, it was a good thing the cafe had not been open at the time. Of course, I would have demanded we change venue if it was, but it was good things did not get to that.

What we had was an unstable dynamic where Zack was willing to accord me a certain level of... let us say indulgence so that I would listen to him prattle.

If I pushed too much, he would push back – with force – and I did not want to challenge him, the group of stray wolves he had with him, and the ones who thought they were being sneaky about following us.

Stupid amateurs.

Eventually, we settled for some other place