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Lexi:Where are you?
Deanna:I’ll send a pin.
I turn my phone on airplane mode and shove it in my purse right as River returns to the booth. He sets the drinks on the table and slides into the booth opposite mine.
“Any poison?” I curl my fingers around the stem of my glass.
“Likely.”
“She doesn’t forgive you?”
“She does.” He tests the drink. “She might do it anyway.”
“To hurt you?”
“Spare you.” He takes another sip. “Her words. ‘I hope that girl knows you’ll never love her.’”
“Tell her I do know.”
He looks at me funny, like he wants to object, but he doesn’t. “I guess I already know you don’t offend easily.”
“You don’t, either.”
He smirks. “I don’t remember you glaring at books as a kid.”
“What?”
“Were you always this cynical?”
I bring the drink to my lips, swallow a hearty mouthful of cosmo. Fuck, Alice is a great mixologist. Is that pomegranate? What a perfect addition. It’s not even pink anymore. It’s wine-red. The color of my favorite lipstick.
“That story about your parents?” River asks.
“What about them?”
“You don’t believe it,” he says.
I take another sip and let out a soft sigh. “Did you ask her to add the pomegranate?”
“She said you’d appreciate it.”
“Why’s that?”
“Because I’m the kind of asshole who worships Hades and Persephone.”
A laugh spills from my lips.
“Exact quote.”
“She’s literary.”
“A musician with fuck-me tits can’t be literary?”
“Did you just say fuck-me tits?” I ask.
“Her words,” he says.
“You can’t say it. You’re a guy. It’s different.” I take another sip. “Do you worship Hades and Persephone?”
