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“Go back to your boyfriend, Genevieve.”
I stand my ground, refusing.
“Are you sleeping with him?” he asks, catching me off guard.
“No.” I roll my eyes. “No, I’m not sleeping with my boyfriend. I’m going on year five waiting on you to come back after you abandoned me without giving me a reason.”
“That’s not what happened.”
“That’s exactly what fucking happened.” My voice cracks.
“He looks older, so you still have Daddy issues?”
“Fuck you.”
“How old is he?”
“He’s not that much older than you.” I hiss. “And he didn’t make me jump through hoops to be with him.”
“I was the one jumping through hoops, Genevieve.” His eyes darken. “How old is he?”
“He’s forty. Happy?”
‘That’s not bad,” he says. “He sounds like he’s trying to plot your life, though.”
“What’s your point, Liam?”
“One, you’re not meant to be a lawyer,” he says. “You’re supposed to be writer and four years doesn’t change that. Two, you can do better than him.”
“Okay, I’m leaving before three.” I shake my head. “Thank you.”
He blocks me. “Does he know that you’re probably thinking of me every time he’s inside you?”
“I don’t think of you at all,” I say. “I let you go a long time ago.”
“Then go ahead and walk away from me.”
Silence.
Before I can say a word, he stamps his mouth over mine and pulls me flush against his chest. The feel of his lips on mine transports me to a place no other man has ever erased, a place that’s forever ours, still begging and waiting for us to reclaim it and finish what we left undone.
But as he kisses me deeper, tears prick my eyes because I can’t shake the way he left me behind.
He tears away from me first. “This is a mistake.”
“I agree.” I fire back. “I’m with Brett and I’m sure he'll neverleave me like you did.”
“He’ll never love you like I did either.”
He leaves me again, and I stand in the bathroom staring at my reflection.
When I return to the table, I put on a fake smile as we listen to the other poets. I focus my attention on Lauren, but when the waitress comes to collect our licenses for another round, I spot Liam’s address and save it to my phone.
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LIAM
Later that night
