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CHAPTER 30

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Klaus: Cosmos is such a terrible nickname. I get that you have to do it because of the fake affection, but couldn't you at least come up with something cute?

Flinn: Like what?

Klaus: Kitten? Baby? Sweetie pie?

Flinn: You are not a kitten and you are not a baby (thank fuck). I've also met limes sweeter than you.

Klaus: What happened to trying to pretend to like each other?

Flinn: The rules don't apply to me.

Klaus: Why?

Flinn: BECAUSE I'M THE ONE WHO'S PAYING AN ARM AND A LEG HERE, MIKASA.

Tucker rang the overhead bell and I wheeled out of my seat and outside to wait. Twenty more minutes slipped by before he emerged from the bar entrance, a backpack bucking on his shoulders and a ball cap on his forehead. I yanked him conveniently by the collar and dragged him into the alley between the Alchemist and a boutique realty building. I smacked him into a nearby wall quite hard and made contact. His skull bounced off the stone, and he spat out a surprised, "Shit, man, what the fuck?

"The fuck
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