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9.New Deal

Jaxon

I sit across from Scarlett at some overpriced restaurant, staring at her, but not really seeing her. She’s talking—about what, I have no fucking clue. Something about a new deal she’s landed, maybe? I don’t care. I take a sip of whiskey, letting the burn distract me from the bullshit around me.

This dinner was a mistake. I knew it the second I agreed to meet her, but I’m here anyway, hoping for... what? Closure? Distraction? Fuck if I know.

Scarlett leans forward, her hand sliding across the table to touch mine. “Jaxon, are you even listening to me?”

I look at her, blinking like I just woke up. “Yeah, I heard you.”

She gives me that sultry smile, the one she’s used a hundred times before to get what she wants. “You don’t seem like yourself lately. What’s going on?”

I shrug, leaning back in my chair, feeling the weight of the past few months pressing down on me. “Just a lot of shit going on.”

Her fingers trace patterns on my wrist, and I don’t pull away. Not yet. She’s playing th
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