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“Oh.” My eyes rise to watch him. Taryn laughs out loud and puts her hand on his chest in a flirty way.
Fuck off, Taryn.
“And get this,” she whispers. “He even has a burner phone.”
“A what?”
“He has fake business cards with another phone number on it that his PA answers.”
“Why?”
“So that the women he dates don’t have his actual number if he wants to disappear.”
I sit back, shocked.
Adrenaline surges through my blood. That’s exactly what he did to me.
“Wow,” I whisper. “I’ve officially heard it all now.”
Taryn laughs out loud again, and I imagine myself pushing her head into the punch bowl until she chokes on the frozen strawberries.
“So I imagine he must ghost a lot of women, then,” I reply.
“No. That’s the thing—he hardly ghosts anyone.”
“What?”
“He just dates for sex. It’s super rare that he actually likes someone and ghosts them.”
He ghosted me.
“But if he’s having sex with all these women, he must like them?” I frown, confused.
“Attraction and feelings are two very different things to him. John says he just dates them until it runs its course, and then he moves on to the next without looking back.”
“Oh.” I watch him across the room. “So in other words, he just breaks hearts wherever he goes.”
“I guess he’s pretty fucked up.”
“I’ll say.” Henley glances up, and our eyes lock. We stare at each other for a beat longer than we should, and I tear my eyes away. “I have to work in the morning, so I should get going.”
“Yeah, me too.” She screws up her nose. “Taryn is probably about to start dancing for the boys.”
“She dances?” I wince.
“Like a stripper on crack.”
I giggle. “Don’t, I’m getting a bad visual.”
Rebecca laughs too. “Do you want to grab a coffee sometime?”
“Yeah.” I smile. “I’d like that.” I kiss her on the cheek. “It was so lovely meeting you.”
“You too.”
Somehow I feel like I made a friend tonight.
I kiss Carol. “Thank you so much for tonight.”
