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“No. Because I don’t want to go to a wedding with him. And he has no interest in going to one with me.”
My phone rang and my stupid heart leapt. I hoped it was Bones.
Damn it.
I fished the cell out of my purse and saw a number I didn’t recognize. I immediately silenced it.
“Not Bones?” she asked.
I sighed. “Not Bones.”
“You seem sad about that.”
“Shut up, Charlie.”
Chapter 16
“Wasn’t there a time when we didn’t talk about boys?” Charlie asked as she polished off the last of the spicy tuna sashimi.
“Yeah, I think we were in diapers,” I muttered.
“Kingston Caldwell. My first crush,” Charlie said. “I was five. He told me to eat dirt and then I tackled him on the playground.”
I thought about Bones tackling me this morning and my blood instantly heated.
Not much had changed through the years, I realized.
“Have you given it any more thought?” Charlie inquired. “The charity, I mean.”
“Charity? What charity?”
“The one you’re going to start,” she stated. “Find your furry soul mate, or whatever.”
“That sounds like a weird, kinky hook-up app for furries.”
“Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it,” Charlie said.
I looked at her. “Really?”
“I’m an explorer.” She shrugged. “I’ve actually been thinking about it a lot.”
“The furry thing?”
She rolled her eyes. “You make one joke. No. About your charity.”
“It’s not my charity.”
“I know, but it should become one. And I’ve been noodling on a business plan.”
“You have?” I asked in surprise.
She nodded. “Yeah. It’s like a puzzle I’m trying to put together. Still surprised my brain isn’t entirely useless mush, but the oddest thing happened. When I fed my brain a piece of information, it jump-started like a computer. Fascinating stuff, the brain.”
“You downplay it so well, Charlie,” I said with a laugh.
“What do you think, though? If I could get a plan together, would you at least look at it?”
“I definitely will.”
