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“I would’ve bid entirely too much for you too if someone like the fuckarello at the next table was looking at you wrong,”
I’m the guy who’s paying over a hundred grand for one more date with the last woman I let into my heart.
AHHHHHHH
The sloth pounds once more, and I realize it’s not a sloth jackhammering. It’s someone knocking on my door.
Whoever’s at the door isn’t giving up. They knock again.
I can’t squint through the peephole—my eyes aren’t working well enough—so I fumble through unhooking the slider and fiddling with the tricky deadbolt, and I peer through the crack in the door.
And then I utter a dammit that’s too loud f...
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Duncan quirks a half smile at me that has more audacity tha...
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“How much do you remember from last night?”
“Touch grass.”
He lets that full smile fly, and god help me, he’s using the dimples too. I hate his dimples...
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“I’ve never been told to touch grass by a hungover raccoo...
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“What do you want?”
There was a time when he’d knock on my door and I’d grab him by the collar and haul him inside so we could strip each other out of our clothes and let off steam and just be.
“Just checking in to see how you’re doing,” he says. “Not much different than when I saw you last night.”
“I can see that. Can I come in?”
He lifts an empty to-go cup from a café down the street and waves it at me before putting it back on the counter. “You still drink coffee?”
I don’t answer so much as I whimper in yes, please. He opens the white cabinet door next to the sink and pulls out my coffee beans, then digs my coffee maker out from the lower cabinet under the row of cabinets separating the kitchen from the living room.
And then he does something even worse than starting my coffee for me. He searches the back of the freezer for my stash...
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“Why are you doin...
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“You need coffee and food before I p...
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“You’re here to piss me off.”
“I’m here because you’ll be pissed when I tell you what I have to tell you. Even though I’d rather it not piss you off, but you’re within your rights to be pissed about it.”
“And you’re going to enjoy it.”
His smile slips. “Not at all.”
“Then why are you in such a good mood?” “Acceptanc...
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“Hold that thought.” He grabs my coffee grinder and the bag of beans, and he carries them out of the...
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“You want one of those too?” he asks.
“Kidding. I didn’t come here to raid your kitchen.”
“Why are you in such a g...
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“Acceptance,” he repeats. “I think I was an ass when we broke up. And I regret that. But I don’t regret that we’re back in each other’s lives. I’m looking forward to what comes next.”
“Whoa, buddy, slow your roll.”
“You buying an experience with me,”
“does not equate to you buying your way back into my life.”
He slides breakfast to ...
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“Yep, you understand, or yep, yep it ...
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“Eat,” he says. “Coffee will be ready in a few.”
I do shoot a look at him when I realize what he’s doing now though. He’s putting my dishes in the dishwasher.
“I was getting to that,”
“Can’t be easy managing your life without full use of ...
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“Temporary inconvenience. I can do my own dishes.”
The expression he aims at me needs no words to accompany it.
You can, but it’s easier for me, and I’m here, so I’m doin...
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Today, he’ll do m...
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That was my issue when we were—whatever we were. Dating? Flinging? Situationshipping? He’d do nice little things, and while I always said thank you, and ...
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You do nice things when you’re trying to i...
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Doesn’t mean it’...
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God knows my mother learned that lesson long before I came into my parents’ lives. I was baby number five after four boys. And she...
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She wasn’t allowe...
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She had mouths to feed and bodies to bathe and clothe and endless laundry to run, and my father thought that since he made more money, he...
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And she willingly spent her life sacrificing her own happiness for the sa...
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