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way and to ask for his help getting settled."
I froze, feeling as brittle as cracked glass. She had to be talking about the advocacy center
dinner, the night Gideon and I had sex for the first time. The night we'd christened his limo and
he'd immediately withdrawn; then left me abruptly.
"When he called me back," she continued, "he told me he'd met someone. That he wanted
you and me to meet when I got into town. I ended up chickening out. He's never asked me to meet a
woman in his life before."
Oh my God. I glanced at Magdalene. Gideon had left me in a rush that night for her . For
Corinne.
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"Excuse me." I pushed back from the table and searched for Gideon. I saw him at the bar and
went to him.
He was just turning away from the bartender with two glasses in his hands when I intercepted
him