attention on you.” She blushes, her drunken face becoming all red. “But we didn’t know each other back then.” “Doesn’t matter.” “If I hadn’t applied to that site, would you have found another girl to chase? Like one of the girls you dated?” “I didn’t date anyone before you.” “But Nikolai said—” “Nikolai was baiting you to get the information he wants. Don’t believe everything he says.” She grins so delicately and elegantly that I want to pause this moment and tuck it in my heart where no one but me can revisit it over and over. “What if…what if…we’d never met?” “We would’ve sooner or later.”
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