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- Page 6 and 7: Chapter OneThe Cartwright HotelWash
- Page 8 and 9: disclose what I’m witnessing.A lo
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- Page 14 and 15: hurt. This accomplishment is import
- Page 16 and 17: “Don’t like it,” he says matt
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- Page 20 and 21: role in this soap opera, then jumps
- Page 22 and 23: to say anything, though. Figured it
- Page 24 and 25: Once he leaves, I drop my head and
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- Page 30 and 31: Chapter FourSolangeYesterday I cras
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- Page 36 and 37: Chapter FiveOlney & Henderson, LLPW
- Page 38 and 39: Under 30 in Atlanta Law Magazine, t
- Page 40 and 41: “Dean.”“Heard about the weddi
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- Page 44 and 45: Chapter SixSolangeI reread Dean’s
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My eyebrows snap together so quickl
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what he’s insinuating, which make
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ME: What the hell. I’m an honest
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proposition ratcheting up my anxiet
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ages and racial backgrounds. All sm
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She stares at my lips, as if she’
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“Water for Dean and a Blackberry
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seems, or maybe just confident in e
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anything.” And then he walks off.
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Dean notices my hesitation and open
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I screw up my face as if there’s
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why it took me this long to find so
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Chapter NineSolange“Next question
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“It does, and it is,” I say, st
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I hate Peter. Okay, hate’s a stro
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“For me,” Dean says, “it’s
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baseball game at Nationals Park? A
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comfortable signing. In fact, I onc
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with you when you have a few minute
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Jaslene sighs. “My love life’s
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Waving off her preposterous observa
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curves his lips into his best appro
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I glance down at my Chucks. “I’
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Chapter TwelveDeanThe warehouse fac
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“Excellent,” she says, peeking
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“It’s not supposed to be a surp
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passing in the night?”“Hmm,”
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Chapter ThirteenDeanThe good news i
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“Riiiight,” he says, setting on
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deserves to be loved. Period. But n
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deep dive into the meaning of that
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nothing new to me, but inside I’m
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Radiating off him. Off me. Surround
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“How are the fake dates going?”
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Chapter FourteenDeanThe party Satur
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“But you love her.”Wearing a wi
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Now I’m curious to know who’s b
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“Are you sure that’s what this
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never have considered until now—a
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Portuguese, and Inventive Acronyms.
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Desperately.The woman cries out, he
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Chapter SixteenDeanAfter the securi
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suspect her willingness to brainsto
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Don’t do it, Solange.”“Okay,
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Chapter SeventeenDean“Say what no
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“Look at you two,” Solange says
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* * *After scoping out the hospital
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“I’m fine,” is all I can must
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room again, a panicked expression o
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Chapter EighteenSolange“Isn’t S
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some sense into me, but I have a ni
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Why?“Filha, are you leaving?” s
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home so she can step into the only
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ago.“See that?” she says, squee
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“Where’d you grow up?” a kid
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day a success no matter what else h
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“Sure, sure,” he says. “What
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shop bell.”Tia Viviane says she b
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movie night isn’t a mythical even
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Chapter TwentyDeanSan Antonio, we h
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new can of worms isn’t wise.Our g
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* * *This isn’t, in fact, a breez
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“Solange, you’re not a guest he
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suggesting that I’d never settle
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and simply marvel at the fact that
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even puffier in his sleep. As if th
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couple, not long.”“Ah, that exp
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from him: that he’ll continue to
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He easily obliges, thrusting all th
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“Let me hear it,” she says. “
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ever, and she’s lazily circling h
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I breathe Solange in. Yes. This all
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either. So I should just let him be
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DeanMy brilliant idea to arrive at
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name—”“Tom Ford,” I say.“
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And holy shit, my pulse is racing,
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“What’s that, baby? I’m too b
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Tia Viviane, the second most likely
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Please tell me he’s the one. Exce
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I helped Dean clean up his place af
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trend I saw the other day. TikTok i
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Goose bumps dot my arms. Dean likes
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sex and slowly guides himself insid
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one did you have in mind?”“When
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movie.”Unfortunately, my cell pho
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help you find a new place.”“Tha
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She furrows her brow and steps away
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other’s lives. Wherever the hell
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healthy, and safe.”“Thanks, Sol
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outpost of the Avengers team, they
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Victory. You have students waiting
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“They did. Henderson’s a fan. T
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wear his vulnerability on his sleev
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“Forgive me, but I doubt that’s
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Ah jeez. She sounds so tragic that
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“Be nice, all right?” I say.
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try one of those.” He turns back
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say, strolling to the conference ro
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Chapter Twenty-NineDean“They fire
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you’ve been chasing. Meanwhile, I
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The waiter arrives with our entrée
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I nod and drop onto the couch. “Y
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Max drops his head and sighs. Yeah,
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most successful romantic relationsh
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Yeah, I thought so too. But for the
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Chapter Thirty-OneSolange“We’re
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He shifts to lie on his back. “Ev
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shit about it. I want to be able to
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“She’s worth it.”“Glad you
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please don’t do anything to delay
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* * *A full belly and a four-and-a-
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“Yeah, yeah, thanks for humoring
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just remembered Brandon’s still h
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EpilogueOne Year LaterSolangeDean b
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“I’m making us smoothies to go,
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She may be right, but Kimberly hers
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AcknowledgmentsSo we meet again, Ac
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Daria, Priscilla Oliveras, and Sabr
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Praise for the Work of Mia Sosa“A
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By Mia SosaThe Wedding CrasherThe W
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About the PublisherAustraliaHarperC