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It might have been the caffeine or maybe just the shame from earlier, but I felt as

voice came down the line, and my heart

hat was your boss, and the way I spoke to him was totally out of line. I want to make it clear that something like

ecided to go with you

dead in

had to be some kind of joke. There was no w

o go with you for the p

they might bust right out of my head. I wa

e serious?

Melanie replied

ted to the phone in excitement. S

s Violet and I began to dance around eac

verything you'll need for the leg

means to me," I blurted out without thinking. I knew that I should have been more reserved, bu

ition," she replied, and there was something in her voic

asn't my place to go poking around. At least, not yet.

o think that and mean it. It was so crazy. So fucking crazy. I could have

oon, Joanna," s

lied, my voice cracking with exc

g myself at Violet. Tossing my arms around

job!" she chanted over and o

is waiting, I had finally gotten where I needed to go. An

ad come to a halt once more. "I don't

e you were on the phone," Vi tol

he guy," I repl

, I've heard of him. Walter Cross. He's always in the papers

g attention, too dizzy with joy to

Violet replied. "Do you

and how I had found it impossible to deny how handsome he was, even while I was tel

know,"

he must be crazy rich. He could keep any stories about al

with a shrug. "I didn'

ou put my name in there, all right?" she joke

we all?"

to squeeze my hand. "I'm

at her.

in the city, it wasn't as though I was going to know anything about it. He was working on the top floor, and I was goi

I'd met him once, and it had gone about as badly as it possibly could

just the wa