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“Of course! No problem. We’ll wait here.”
Grr…
“It’s fine,” Val says, kissing my cheek.
I sigh and take his hand after he lifts off me.
“Tomorrow night. I promise,” I say, squeezing his fingers.
We lean in for another quick kiss…
That becomes more…
That becomes more…
That becomes… ugh. I force myself to let go.
“I’m dying to play with that bassline, anyway,” he says, reaching for the laptop.
I glare at the door. Funny, because I’m dying to play with something very different.
18—INDIANAPOLIS (CONVENIENCE STORE)
VAL
I can’t decide if spending the night with Larinda and not touching her is worse than not spending the night at all. I do know that there’s no version of spending the night with Coriander and Sage that I want to repeat.
Either way, it’s been a constant battle with myself not to think about Larinda every second since. How it felt to crowd her on the bed, to touch her, to feel her hands on me, to finally get intimate with her beyond?—
“Hey! Earth to Mr. Andrews! I asked a critical question that requires an urgent response,” Chad hisses at me. “This or that?”
I tune back in to the present to find my companion holding up identical bags of breath mints.
“They’re the same.”
“No. Look.”
He turns them around. They’re still the same.
“That one,” I say, pointing at the one on the left.
“Really? Hmm…” He tilts his head as he studies them. “I don’t know. The ink on the serving size text might be a tad darker on this one. You don’t have to squint as hard to see it.”
“Um, sure. So that one.”
“But this bag is less creased.” He gives me a grave look. “We can’t screw this up, Val.”
“Buying a bag of mints?”
I don’t even know how you’d screw that up.
“They’re for Jarvis. He trusted me with this assignment. Do you know what happens if I do this right?”
“You get to buy him more mints?”
“Exactly.” He puts both bags back. “Maybe this one?”
Still the same mint.
