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“My safety isn’t your concern, but thank you.” I sip my champagne. “This is so good.” I hold my glass up to him.

“Hmm, yes it is,” he replies as he eyes the bubbling liquid in his glass.

“So you bought a suit for me?” I smirk.

He smiles bashfully. “I did.”

Our eyes are locked on each other. “It looks really good,” I whisper.

“I had to try and match my beautiful date. I had an advantage. I already knew what she was wearing.”

His beautiful date.

Oh, my.

“Well, you haven’t had a date in six years.” I smirk cheekily.

He laughs. “You caught that, did you?”

I smile. “Yes, I caught that.” I take a sip. “Why haven’t you taken a woman on a date for six years?”

He shrugs and rearranges his napkin on his lap. “I don’t know. Things haven’t gone as planned, I suppose.”

“What were the plans?”

He licks the champagne from his bottom lip and I feel my insides clench. “I just…” He hesitates as he thinks. “I just always imagined I would meet the right person and everything else would fall into place.”

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