“You’ve been different since you met him. I’m… happy for you.” I cock my head. “But?” I prompt, hearing the hesitation clear as day in his words. He flattens his lips and for a second I think he’s going to play dumb, but he surprises me by answering. “But, the selfish part of me thought maybe you’d be alone forever with me. Alone together, I guess.” He lets out a self-pitying kind of laugh and then downs the rest of his drink. “Who says you have to be alone forever? Plenty of people in this city would crawl over a pile of bodies to get into Lorenzo Moretti’s bed.” “That’s the problem, isn’t
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