I approached the arrangement the way I approached everything that scared me.I made a list.Adrian Cole. Age thirty-four. CEO of Cole Industries, a private investment and real estate conglomerate founded by his father Victor. Net worth estimated at somewhere between uncomfortable and obscene, depending on which publication you trusted. Known for being difficult to read, impossible to charm, and unreasonably effective in boardrooms. No public relationships on record. Always photographed alone, always with the expression that made journalists call him enigmatic because cold was impolite.I had three days before the Friday dinner.Maya sat cross-legged on my bed while I went through everything I had printed, reading over my shoulder, occasionally stealing from the bowl of crackers between us. “You’re studying him like he’s a final exam,” she said.“He basically is.”“You know most people who go on dates just, like, talk to the person.”“Most people’s dates don’t have a Wikipedia page.”S
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