LENAI shifted on my barstool and glanced to the front of the bar where Oliver sat with his rowdy sports-obsessed friends. I demoted him, Ollie to Oliver, the asshole roommate who dragged me out of the house on this beautiful fall evening, insisting that I "get out and have some fun." Then, the game came on, his friends wandered in, and I was perfectly fine not being associated with their grandiose whoops and whistles. At least hunkered down at the back corner of the bar, I could pretend like they were strangers. I stabbed the black straw through the ice in my black cherry mojito and considered finding my own way home. But Ollie would intercept me at the door, apologize for getting distracted, and we'd leave. It might not sound like the worst idea, but I was stewing. Punishing him with a silent treatment he had yet to notice. Really smart, Lena. "Tall Smithwicks." A deep male voice startled me, and I glanced up from my drink long enough to see a tall dark-haired man, claim the seat
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