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I cringed. “Yes. I didn’t know at the time, though.”
“Holy shit,” she breathed. “I can’t believe it.” Then she laughed, her big brown eyes tearing up. “Oh my god, Zee. When you finally decided to let your hair down, you went full throttle and hooked up with one of the richest, most eligible bachelors in the country.”
"Stop laughing," she said. "It was going to be so awkward, particularly during our one-on-one meeting."
She wiggled her eyebrows. "Maybe it would have turned into a literal one-on-one meeting."
The sip of coffee I had just taken almost choked me. "Jovan and I were back together. Plus, I worked for him, so that would have been completely inappropriate," I thought back to Lirael’s icy expression during our last meeting. "Not to mention, I was pretty sure he had no interest in a repeat performance."
"From the minimal juicy details you gave of that night
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